Creating or updating segment data for a CICS user

To create or update CICS segment data for a CICS user, specify the CICS option on the RACF ADDUSER command for a new user, or on the ALTUSER command for an existing user.

For example, the following command adds a new CICS user to the RACF database with associated CICS operator data:

ADDUSER userid  DFLTGRP(group_name) NAME(user_name) OWNER(group_id)
        PASSWORD(password)
        CICS(OPCLASS(1,2,...,n) OPIDENT(identifier) OPPRTY(priority)
             TIMEOUT(timeout_value) XRFSOFF(NOFORCE))
        LANGUAGE(PRIMARY(primary_language))

The following example of the ALTUSER command adds CICS operator data to an existing user in the RACF database:

ALTUSER userid
        CICS(OPCLASS(1,2,...,n) OPIDENT(identifier) OPPRTY(priori`ty)
             TIMEOUT(timeout_value) XRFSOFF(NOFORCE))
        LANGUAGE(PRIMARY(primary_language))

Before issuing these commands to define CICS operator data, ensure that the CICS-supplied RACF dynamic parse validation routines are installed in an APF-authorized library in the linklist. See CICS-supplied RACF dynamic parse validation routines for details of these exits.

If you do not have the system-SPECIAL attribute, ask your RACF security administrator for the authority to list or update the CICS and LANGUAGE segments in the user profiles. Listing or updating these segments is done by creating profiles in the RACF FIELD class. For more information, see Controlling access to fields in RACF profiles.

If you want to change the opclass but you do not want to respecify the list, you can use the ADDOPCLASS and DELOPCLASS operands. For example:

ALTUSER userid
        CICS(ADDOPCLASS (1,2)
             DELOPCLASS (6,7))