John, I would say you will have to allocate the sysin dataset and sysprint. I have called in COBOL via bpxwdyn allocating sysin and sysprint, but wasnt idcams. I don't see why you couldn't do the same for idcams
Sent from my iPad On Dec 29, 2011, at 7:50 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > I am writing a program which will ATTACH IDCAMS to do some things. I > have been reading: > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2I2A0/D.1 > which goes over the commands which require APF authorization. I have one > question that perhaps someone here knows the answer to. The above > states: > <quote> > An address space that calls IDCAMS to issue any of these commands must > be APF authorized, or the command will terminate: > > * ALLOCATE command to allocate an SMS-managed data set > </quote> > > What is the meaning of the second "allocate" in that sentence? Does it > mean "create" as in "allocate a new" or does it mean the more generic > "allocate" as in "do a dynamic allocation" even if the dataset already > exists? > > I know, "try it and see". When I get to that point, I will. I'm writing > a UNIX command (in HLASM) which runs IDCAMS from a UNIX shell prompt. > I'm still in the design stage on what I want it to "look like" in terms > of options and arguments. > > -- > John McKown > Maranatha! <>< > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
