RACF user profiles

A user profile is a description of a RACF®-defined user. The information in the profile includes the user ID, the user name, the user's password, the profile owner, user attributes, and other data. The user profile also contains user-related information for subsystems, including CICS®.

The user profiles consists of one or more segments—a RACF segment, and others that are optional. For CICS users, the important segments are: