If your installation has two or more systems sharing a RACF® database, you must issue the SETROPTS RACLIST REFRESH command on all systems to have the results effective on all systems, unless RACF is enabled for sysplex communication. However, if you do not perform a refresh (by issuing the SETROPTS command with the REFRESH option) on a system sharing a RACF database and that system needs to re-IPL, a fresh copy of the RACLISTed profiles is read from the database at IPL time. When RACGLIST profiles exist for the class, SETROPTS RACLIST(classname) REFRESH must be used for the changed profiles to become effective, even if the system is IPLed.

When RACF is enabled for sysplex communication, it propagates the SETROPTS RACLIST REFRESH command to each of the systems in the data sharing group.