Data set profile ownership

Each data set profile defined to RACF® requires a RACF-defined user or group as the owner of the profile. The owner (if a user) has full control over the profile, including the access list.

If the owner of the data set profile is a group, users with group-SPECIAL in that group have full control over the profile.

Ownership of data set profiles is assigned when the profiles are defined to RACF. Note that ownership of a data set profile does not mean that the owner can automatically access that data set. To access a data set, the owner must still be authorized in the profile's access list, unless the high-level qualifier of the profile name is the owner's user ID.

In some cases, the OWNER field of a discrete data set profile can be changed simply by renaming the data set. For details, see z/OS Security Server RACF System Programmer's Guide.