As someone noted, the RACF STC was originally optional. That's not RACF Lord and Protector but RACF the Operator Command Utility. SMPE-managed [SYS1.IBM.]PROCLIB now supplies this element in z/OS 2.3:
//******************************************************************// //* RACF: *// //* *// //* THIS RACF SYS1.PROCLIB PROCEDURE CAN BE USED TO START *// //* THE RACF ADDRESS SPACE. *// //* BEFORE EXECUTING IT, THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE SHOULD BE *// //* MODIFIED TO MEET YOUR INSTALLATION'S REQUIREMENTS. *// //* *// //* THE ADDRESS SPACE WILL AUTO-START DURING SYSTEM IPL. *// //* THE RACF SUBSYSTEM INITIALIZATION PROGRAM WILL ISSUE *// //* AN INTERNAL MVS START COMMAND TO START THE RACF STARTED *// //* PROCEDURE, WHICH IN TURN WILL INITIALIZE THE RACF ADDRESS *// //* SPACE. *// //* *// //* CHANGE ACTIVITY = *// //* $L0=ADDRSP JRF1922 920731 PDPJL1: PTM PIM0401 *// //******************************************************************// //RACF PROC //RACF EXEC PGM=IRRSSM00,REGION=0M . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 1:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx On Tue, 21 May 2019 10:27:20 -0400, Tony Thigpen <t...@vse2pdf.com> wrote: >I am looking at my ipl process and am trying to understand why some of >the start by themselves. > >I am in a sandbox so I can play all I want. > >My current IEFSSN00 is: >000001 SUBSYS SUBNAME(SMS) >000002 INITRTN(IGDSSIIN) >000003 INITPARM('ID=00,PROMPT=DISPLAY') >000004 SUBSYS SUBNAME(JES2) /* JES2 AS PRIMARY SUBSYSTEM */ >000005 PRIMARY(YES) START(YES) >000006 SUBSYS SUBNAME(RACF) >000007 INITRTN(IRRSSI00) >000008 INITPARM('%,M') >000009 SUBSYS SUBNAME(CICS) >000010 SUBSYS SUBNAME(DFRM) /* NAME OF THE DFSMSRMM SUBSYSTEM */ >000011 INITRTN(EDGSSSI) >000012 SUBSYS SUBNAME(TNF) >000013 SUBSYS SUBNAME(VMCF) >000014 SUBSYS SUBNAME(FFST) >000015 SUBSYS SUBNAME(IXFP) /* IXFP SUBSYSTEM */ >000016 INITRTN(SIBSSIPL) >000017 INITPARM('INIT(Y),DYNDDSR(I),LANG(AMENG)') > >I understand that JES will start because of the START(YES), but I am >also seeing other sub-systems like RACF start. > >Does the INITRTN force an autostart as if START(YES) was specified? No, but it can start a subsystem address space. > >It appears that jobs started with IEFSSNxx start as normal JES jobs. >Can IEFSSNxx be used to start tasks which run as SUB=MSTR. > Only 2 ways a subsystem ASID can start as far as I know, as an STC from a START command or from the INITRTN (using ASCRE I assume). z/OS MVS Using the Subsystem Interface should have the details. https://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R3SA380679/$file/ieaf200_v2r3.pdf Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN