# check user in RACF **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum\ **Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Mainframes\ **Created:** [May 10, 2011, 10:11am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/check-user-in-racf/97036 "2011-05-10T10:11:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![noorieh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cdc98d/32.png) [@noorieh](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/noorieh)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 10:11am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/check-user-in-racf/97036/1 "2011-05-10T10:11:24Z")
I need to check a user in RACF, is it possible by natural? (we don’t have Natural SAF) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/check-user-in-racf/97036/2 "2011-05-10T17:33:37Z")
Then you have to write your own check against RACF. I see no other chance. ---
**Author:** ![noorieh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cdc98d/32.png) [@noorieh](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/noorieh)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/check-user-in-racf/97036/3 "2011-05-11T01:02:28Z")
can anyone help me to do this? I can do it by java programming (RACF.jar) but by natural …? i don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/check-user-in-racf/97036/4 "2011-05-11T02:57:19Z")
Are you talking about a batch job, or a Natural TP session (if yes, which TP monitor) ? ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Johnson1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/brian_johnson1/32/163_2.png) [@Brian\_Johnson1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Brian_Johnson1)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/check-user-in-racf/97036/5 "2011-05-11T22:10:50Z")
> **[Executing RACF callable services from COBOL & CICS progr -IBM Mainframes](https://ibmmainframes.com/about10361.html)** > > JCL & VSAM: Hi All, We are looking for a way to execute the RACF TSO command RLIST from the CICS program. We have understood... The link above references another forum which may be applicable here. You should be able to call that interface module from Natural just as you can from COBOL. If that isn’t what you are looking for, Google the terms “COBOL to RACF API”. Anything you can call from COBOL, you can call from Natural, and I would think there would be at least as many assembler APIs into RACF as they exposed in Java. ---
**Author:** ![noorieh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cdc98d/32.png) [@noorieh](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/noorieh)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 10:58am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/check-user-in-racf/97036/6 "2011-05-12T10:58:12Z")
Thanks for all I need a way for this cheking, no matter way of it, I need to check user in natural by anyway. Thanks again ---
**Author:** ![Douglas\_Kelly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/douglas_kelly/32/102_2.png) [@Douglas\_Kelly](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Douglas_Kelly)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/check-user-in-racf/97036/7 "2011-05-12T21:07:11Z")
Do you just need to verify that the current logged-on user is a RACF user? Are you using Natural Security? If so, using AUTO=ON logs the user into Natural Security with their RACF logon, so you only need to see \*USER to get their RACF ID. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/check-user-in-racf/97036/8 "2021-04-02T15:00:13Z")