Charles, I dont have that issue I can send you a sample, if you wish
Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Sep 15, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, that's certainly pretty clear and explicit. Thanks. But unless I am > losing my mind, that is not the behavior I am used to seeing. > > It would also be nice if they put this all in one place. I have read Chapter > 5, "Opening Files," about ten times. That's where I would expect to find > information on, well, opening files -- not under "Performing OS I/O > Operations." > > I am going to play with this some more. As I say, I don't think my other > programs see this behavior. fopen("FOO.BAR", ... tries to open FOO.BAR, not > MYUSER.FOO.BAR. (Yes, we run RACF.) > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Norbert Friemel > Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 2:45 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: C and LE -- when prepend userid on file names? > > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:02:39 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > >> No doubt this is wonderfully documented somewhere but I am sitting here >> tearing my hair out. >> >> I have a C++ *batch* program that I could not get to open a >> conventional z/OS dataset by name to save my life until I finally >> figured out it was prepending my userid onto the specified name a la TSO. >> >> If I have encountered this behavior before and/or how to turn it on and >> off I have forgotten. It sure does not jump out at me from the manuals. >> >> IBM LE C running in batch: what determines whether it prepends your >> userid onto a conventional z/OS dataset name? >> > > Quote from > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/CBCPG1C0/2.9.1.1.1 > > "When you enclose a name in single quotation marks, the name is fully > qualified. The file opened is the one specified by the name inside the > quotation marks. If the name is not fully qualified, z/OS XL C/C++ does one > of the following: > > - If your system does not use RACF, z/OS XL C/C++ does not add a high-level > qualifier to the name you specified. > > - If you are running under TSO (batch or interactive), z/OS XL C/C++ > appends the TSO user prefix to the front of the name. For example, the > statement fopen("a.b","w"); opens a data set tsoid.A.B, where tsoid is the > user prefix. If the name is fully qualified, z/OS XL C/C++ does not append a > user prefix. You can set the user prefix by using the TSO PROFILE command > with the PREFIX parameter. > > - If you are running under z/OS batch or IMS (batch or online), z/OS XL > C/C++ appends the RACF user ID to the front of the name." > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
