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Eamonn McGrath's profile image
Eamonn McGrath posted 07/30/26 09:06 AM

We are currently in the process of rolling out a new class for a vendor and are just setting it up on the sandpit system and notice that when set up and using the AU.S -> RACF Control -> RACFCLAS report we can see the new class but in the description field there is only ????. 

My question is how can we update this field to something more meaningful las I cannot see a command parameter in the RDEF or RALT commands to update this field?  
Where is this field derived from? 

Eams

Jeroen Tiggelman's profile image
Jeroen Tiggelman posted 07/30/26 11:17 AM

Hi Eams,

You currently cannot influence the output of this field, which is the DESCRIPTION field of report type CLASS.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/szs/3.2.0?topic=table-class-field-descriptions#select_list_fields_class_field_descs__DESCRIPTION
The value comes from an internal knowledge base.

We have heard the requirement before to set this value for an installation-defined class, or override it.
You might want to express your concurrence on Ideas ZSECURE-I-618 and ZSECURE-I-265.

Regards,
Jeroen

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