Activating RACF resource classes

Before you can use RACF® for CICS® resources and for user-defined resources, you must activate the associated RACF resource classes by using the RACF SETROPTS command.

To run the CICS-supplied IVPs with external security, you must activate the resource classes for CICS resources.

To use your own user-defined resources with external security in your CICS environment:
  • Define resource classes for your resources.
  • Activate the resource classes.
  • Optionally apply the RACLIST option to the resource classes to be used for QUERY SECURITY commands, to build in storage profiles for those resource classes.

For information about RACF resource classes, see the RACF classes for CICS resources.