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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories RACF
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 19, 2015

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PBOM1008-1175 RACF Cleanup Utility

SUBMITTER SECTION
Submitted by: Malcolm.Sanderson
Submitters Company: Bank of Montreal

PUBLIC
Requirement Number and Title: PBOM1008-1175 RACF Cleanup Utility
Homework Assigned: No
Requirement Category: Core Technology
Current Status:
Closed Status:
Session:
Requirement Value Category: System Management - Operations
Product Affected: RACF
Problem Description: It is very difficult to delete obsolete RACF profiles when those profiles are in one RACF data set but the RACF range table points to the current entries in another RACF data set.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 30, 2022
    This item is a valid requirement but unlikely to be given high enough priority to be placed into the product plan. If this requirement is high value, please re-open it, or open a new requirement.
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 20, 2018

    Just wondering why you can't just use RACF's IRRRID00 utility with DD DUMMY as input? I do this frequently to clean up obsolete entries.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 21, 2015

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #75784 in product z/OS.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 21, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - RACF
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - zBLC

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - zBLC family
    Product - zBLC
    Component - zBLC Requirements
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - zBLC

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