On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:41:32 -0500, Tony @ Comcast <[email protected]> wrote:
>Years ago I worked for a small MVS shop that functioned quite well using the >"catalog name being the same as the hlq" trick to avoid the need for >creating aliases en masse. It was handy for the TSO user population to have >a catalog called ISPF, the prefixing everyone's personal datasets >accordingly. > >If I were in the storage management business these days (glad I'm not!) I'd >continue to exploit this "feature." > The biggest problem I see with this is security. Unless the security admin still defined ISPF.userid.* profiles for each new user (or whatever profile matched the personal data set naming convention. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
