On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:08:37 -0500, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:47:07 -0500, Arthur T. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Many years back I found out that the userid used to >>search the SDSF tables is *not* the RACF userid when done >>from batch. Instead, it's the >>jobname-minus-last-character. I had opened a PMR; I forget >>details of the response, but they basically said WAD. >> > >How many years back? This is certainly not true today and AFAIK has >never been true. > >The biggest problem I have found with batch is that many shops have >SDSF security set up (from the default/sample parms) based on TSO >authorities (JCL, OPER, ACCT) and TSOAUTH is automatically set to JCL for >a batch SDSF job (regardless of what authorities the USERID actually has). >This is the documented behavior. > And to expand on what I just wrote. If you then want to add a group based on userid, you have to make sure the group is defined before the group based on TSOAUTH(JCL) otherwise you can't get there from here. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

