RACF Utility – RACKILL

If you ever come across a situation where you need to get rid of a profile from RACF but for some odd reason it’s proving to be a difficult task, you may relax; RACKILL utility is here for the rescue. The RACKILL utility allows you to unconditionally delete profiles in the RACF database.

A few notes:

1. The user running the RACKILL utility must have UPDATE authority to the resource RACKILL in the RACF FACILITY class.
2. When uploading these two files into your mainframe z/OS environment, make sure you do it in fixed-blocked (FB) format and with a record length (LRECL) of 80.
3. The Load module needs to be uploaded in binary format.
4. You need to do a TSO RECEIVE of the load module before being able to use it!!
5. If uploading the JCL, make sure you do it in ASCII format.

RACKILL JCL:

//DPFTCTST JOB (9999,CC7),FTC,CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=X                                
//*                                                                             
//* UNCONDITIONALLY DELETE OF RACF PROFILES.                                    
//*                                                                             
//* REQUIRES UPDATE ACCESS TO FACILITY RACKILL RESOURCE.                        
//*                                                                             
//* INPUT RECORDS WILL BE LOGGED IN GENERAL SMF RECORDS; EVQUAL=97.             
//* SMF RECORD TYPE IS 80. CAN BE LISTED BY RACFRW.                             
//*                                                                             
//* PROFILES ARE IDENTIFIED BY CLASS, PROFILENAME AND POSSIBLY VOLUME           
//* FOR DISCRETE DATASET PROFILES. SET VOLUME TO BLANKS WHEN NO PROPER          
//* VALUE EXIST.                                                                
//*                                                                             
//* TO ENABLE DELETE OF FULLY QUALIFIED GENERICS IN                             
//* GENERAL RESOURCE CLASSES (WHICH ARE NOT OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED) SET           
//* AN 'U' INSTEAD OF THE BLANK BEFORE THE PROFILENAME.                         
//*                                                                             
//* TO DELETE                                                                   
//* DISCRETE PROFILES, ACCIDENTALLY CREATED WITH GENERIC CHARACTERS,            
//* BUT BEFORE DOING SETROPTS GENCMD(CLASS), SET A 'D' BEFORE THE               
//* PROFILE NAME.                                                               
//*                                                                             
//* TO DELETE A SINGLE VOLUME FROM A SET OF TAPEVOLUMES HAVE A BLANK            
//* BEFORE THE PROFILENAME. TO DELETE THE WHOLE SET OF TAPEVOLUMES,             
//* SET A 'A' BEFORE THE PROFILE NAME.                                          
//*                                                                             
//GO  EXEC PGM=RACKILL                                                          
//STEPLIB  DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MVSGRP.TEST.APFLIB