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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories RACF
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 11, 2026

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Make R_ADMIN consistent. Creating a the command line string gives an invalid string

I want to recreate the profiles for various RACF profiles.

I can use R_ADMIN EXTRACT to get the information into memory.   I can blindly copy all the fields into the structure required for ADMN_ADD_USER.  I specify
• '10000000'b – ADMN_FLAGS_NORUN – If set, then do not execute the command which is constructed by the r_admin
service.
• '01000000'b – ADMN_FLAGS_RETCMD – If set, return the text of the command which is constructed by the r_admin
service.
• '00100000'b – ADMN_FLAGS_ADDQUOT – If set, automatically add quotes around fields which are quotable.
Also verify that fields which are not quotable do not contain certain illegal characters.

 

I get back a string which generally works.
However the string contains OPERPARM (STORAGE(0)) and this causes

IKJ56702I INVALID STORAGE, 0                                                            
IKJ56701I MISSING STORAGE AMOUNT+                                                       
IKJ56701I MISSING MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF VIRTUAL STORAGE   

 

The generated code should work.  As it is, I now need to change my program to special case this field.    

Th R_admin code for generating the command string should convert the STORAGE(0) to NOSTORAGE

                              

 


 

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Mar 10, 2026
    Thank you for submitting this requirement. This would likely be an incompatible change. Additionally, zSecure has functionality to clone profiles. This item is unlikely to be given high enough priority to be placed into the product plan.
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