Alter Operation Error

Understanding the AlterOperationError exception.

 

An Alter operation targeting a profile that does NOT exist already could end up effectively performing an Add operation to create a new profile. pyRACF will always raise an AlterOperationError and refuse to perform the requested operation to bring attention to this condition.

 

Prior to executing an Alter operation, a Profile Extract is attempted to determine whether the profile already exists. If the Return Code and the Messages returned by the Extract operation indicate that the profile does NOT exist, an AlterOperationError will be raised and the requseted Alter operation will NOT be executed. An AlterOperationError can be handled as follows.

Python Script

from pyracf import UserAdmin
from pyracf import AlterOperationError

user_admin = UserAdmin()

try:
    user_admin.alter("squidwrd")
except AlterOperationError as e:
    print(e.message)

Console Output

Refusing to make security request to IRRSMO00.

Target profile 'squidwrd' does not exist as a 'user' profile.