How RESLEVEL can affect the checks made

Depending on how you set up your RESLEVEL profile, we can change which user IDs are checked when access to a resource is requested. The possible checks are:

The following table shows the checks made for IMS connections.

Table 52. Checks made at different RACF access levels for IMS connections
RACF access level Level of checking
NONE Check the IMS address space user ID and the IMS second user ID or alternate user ID.
READ Check the IMS address space user ID.
UPDATE Check the IMS address space user ID.
CONTROL No check.
ALTER No check.