You can specify an asterisk (*) within a profile name to represent one qualifier of a resource name. You can also use a double asterisk (**) to represent zero or more qualifiers within a general resource generic profile or at the end of such a profile. Use of the double asterisk (**) in general resource generic profiles is not controlled by the SETROPTS EGN option which applies only to the data set profiles.

Some of the rules for generic characters are different between general resource and data set generic profiles. See z/OS Security Server RACF Command Language Reference for more information.