Internal profile naming for general resource classes

The form of the entry name the RACF® manager uses for general resource classes consists of prefixing 9 characters to the beginning of the entry name. It uses the 8 characters of the class name (padded with trailing blanks if the class name is shorter than 8 characters), plus a dash. For example, a TAPEVOL named DATA1 becomes TAPEVOL -DATA1, and a DASDVOL named DATA1 becomes DASDVOL -DATA1.

RACF modifies generic profile names internally, as follows:

For DATASET profiles, the first delimiter (a period) is converted to X'01'. In addition, RACF modifies the generic characters.
For general-resource classes, the hyphen (-) that is added internally is converted to X'02'. In addition, RACF modifies the generic characters.

Note: You must be careful with the TAPEVOL class. Although there is no requirement that all entries in this class be directed to the same data set in the RACF database, you must direct all the members of any tape volume set to a single data set in the RACF database. The RACF manager returns a code of 60 if you attempt to add to a tape volume set a volume whose profile is not assigned by the range table to the same data set in the RACF database.