If your installation uses automatic direction to synchronize user and group profiles, you should also synchronize profiles in the CFIELD class once you begin to add custom field data to the CSDATA segments of user and group profiles.

When you activate new or changed custom fields, be aware that the IRRDPI00 command is not automatically propagated. Therefore, you cannot use new or changed custom fields until your system programmer executes IRRDPI00 UPDATE on each target system. (See Activating a custom field.)

Do not use command direction to direct a command (such as ADDUSER or ALTGROUP command) that includes a custom field keyword to add or change data in the CSDATA segment of a user or group profile when the custom field is not defined on both the local system and the remote system. If the custom field is not defined on either one of the systems, TSO/E dynamic parse message will fail the command on the system where the custom field is undefined because the custom field keyword is unknown.