The owner of a profile protecting a data set or general reousrce can grant or deny a user or group access to that resource by including the user ID or group ID in the resource profile's access list with the appropriate access authority. READ - read access only. You can use RACF to protect data sets by creating profiles for them. When you attempt to use a data set, RACF checks your user profile as well as the data set profile to decide whether to allow you to use it. Creating Generic or Discrete profiles to protect data sets Generic profiles protect several data sets that have the same security requirements and that have some identical characters in their names.
Discrete profiles protect single data sets with unique security requirements.
The following generic characters can be used when naming a generic profile. A precent sign matches only one character. An asterick used as a qualifier in the middle of a profile name, matches one and only one qualifier. An asterick used at the end of a profile name has different meanings. An asterick used as a character at the end of a profile name matches zero or more characters until the end of the qualifier.