Colin,

Most well-organised RACF shops will not allow RACF users in access lists. 
Access is manipulated using permits to groups and group connects to RACF users.
That makes cloning a user far easier as for access purposes you identify the 
group connects.

Lennie

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Colin Paice
Sent: 05 March 2026 09:56
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Mainframe ID's

I understand.

I used my code to replicate a userid by running my program and changing COLIN 
to COLIN1 in the output.
My program will not help if individual userids (rather than groups) have access 
to a resource; you have to look at every resource to find the id's access.

Colin

On Thu, 5 Mar 2026 at 08:35, ITschak Mugzach < 
[email protected]> wrote:

> Colin,
>
> I think that Steve talked about copying a user, not just create one. 
> In racf it is a two step task, first collect information from the name 
> utility and than look which authority the user have on the resource. 
> Alternatively usr the unload utility
>
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> בתאריך יום ה׳, 5 במרץ 2026 ב-9:42 מאת Colin Paice <
> [email protected]>:
>
> > I have a program (under development) which recreates the  RACF 
> > command
> used
> > to create a used/dataset/resource profile.
> > You pass parameters U COLIN
> > It generates
> > ADDUSER COLIN
> >
> > CONNECT COLIN   GROUP(IZUADMIN)  UACC(READ)  SPECIAL  AUDITOR  -
> >     REVOKE(01/01/27)  -
> >     RESUME(01/02/27)
> > CONNECT COLIN   GROUP(IZUUSER)  UACC(NONE)
> > CONNECT COLIN   GROUP(SYS1)  UACC(NONE)  -
> >     REVOKE(01/01/27)  -
> >     RESUME(01/02/27)
> >
> > ALTUSER -
> >   COLIN -
> >   OWNER (COLIN) -
> >   NOADSP -
> >   NOOPERATIONS -
> >   NOGRPACC -
> >   NAME ('CCPAICE') -
> >   DFLTGRP (TEST) -
> >   DATA ('COLIN''S WITH A QUOTE') -
> >   NOAUDITOR -
> >   CLAUTH (CSFSERV) -
> >   NOREST -
> >   NOROAUDIT -
> >   WHEN( -
> >     DAYS (SUNDAY -
> >       MONDAY -
> >       TUESDAY -
> >       WEDNESDAY -
> >       THURSDAY -
> >       FRIDAY -
> >       SATURDAY) -
> >     TIME (ANYTIME))
> > ALTUSER -
> >   COLIN -
> >   TSO (ACCTNUM ('ACCT#') -
> >     COMMAND ('ex ''colin.zlogon.clist''') -
> >     PROC (ISPFPROC) -
> >     SIZE (2096128) -
> >     MAXSIZE (2096128) -
> >     USERDATA (0000) -
> >     UNIT (3390))
> > ALTUSER -
> >   COLIN -
> >   OMVS (UID (990021) -
> >     HOME ('/u/tmp/zowet/colin') -
> >     PROGRAM ('/u/zopen/usr/local/bin/bash') -
> >     MMAPAREAMAX (16777216) -
> >     SHMEMMAX (300M))
> >
> >
> > Is this what you are after ?
> >
> > Colin
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 4 Mar 2026 at 20:35, Steve Beaver < 
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > We have all struggled with replicating a TSO id without something 
> > > like
> > VRA
> > > or zSecure
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm learning more about TSS - it has a convent command
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >       TSS RENAME(acid) ACID(new acid)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > That works nicely.  The only thing you really need to do is DEFINE 
> > > an
> > ALIAS
> > > and rename the datasets provided there are no a billion of them
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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