The refresh operation for SETROPTS processing applies only to the system on which you issue the SETROPTS command, unless RACF is enabled for sysplex communication. If RACF is not enabled for sysplex communication and two or more systems in your installation are sharing a RACF® database, you must issue the SETROPTS command on each system to have the refresh done on all systems. When RACF is enabled for sysplex communication, RACF propagates the command to each of the systems in the data sharing group. However, if you do not perform a refresh (issue the SETROPTS command with the REFRESH option) on a system sharing a RACF database and that system needs to re-IPL, the refresh takes effect on that system when re-IPL is performed.