Yep. Got that. My confusion was that it wasn't immediately obvious that once 
the system was IPLed it was in Sysplex communications mode.

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On Friday, May 24, 2019 8:56 AM, Allan Staller <[email protected]> wrote:

> I just went through this. There are 2 "levels" of RACF sharing
> SYSPLEX Data Sharing (CF required) and SYSPLEX Communications (no CF 
> required).
>
> SYSPLEX Data Sharing is b'10001100' (x'8C')
> SYSPLEX Communication is b'10001000' (x'88').
>
> What you have set up is SYSPLEX Communication. RACF will not be using the CF 
> in this mode.
> I believe the bits are described in the data areas manual for ICHRDSNT.
>
> HTH,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [email protected] On Behalf Of 
> Mark Jacobs
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2019 5:38 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: ICHRDSNT Table. RACF in sysplex communications mode
>
> Since there's more activity here than in the RACF mailing list, thought I'd 
> ask here first. I changed the flag byte in the RACF dataset names table to 
> enable sysplex communications today, and ipled the first system with the 
> changed table. Even though it's not talking to another system yet via XCF, I 
> had thought the RVARY LIST command issued on that system would have told me 
> that it's enabled for sysplex communications. I've verified that this system 
> is using the updated load module.
>
> rvary list
> ICH15013I RACF DATABASE STATUS:
> ACTIVE USE NUM VOLUME DATASET
>
> YES PRIM 1 SYS001 SYS1.PROD.RACF
> YES BACK 1 SYS011 SYS1.PROD.RACF.BACKUP
> ICH15020I RVARY COMMAND HAS FINISHED PROCESSING.
> READY
>
> Here's what I set in the table;
>
> ICHRDSNT CSECT
> DC AL1(1) INDICATES ONE RACF DATA SET
> DC CL44'SYS1.PROD.RACF' PRIMARY RACF DS NAME
> DC CL44'SYS1.PROD.RACF.BACKUP' BACKUP RACF DS NAME
> DC AL1(255) # OF RESIDENT DATA BLOCKS
>
> -          DC    B'01234567'                  BIT COUNT
>            DC    B'10001000'                  SYSPLEX, NON DATASHARING
>            END
>
>
>
> Any ideas?
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