It is a bit of an overkill for each individual user to have their own catalog 😊
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Jerry Whitteridge > Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 3:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: EXTERNAL EMAIL: How get a user to use his own catalog rather > than master? > > You are correct the user should not be updating the Master Cat. You will > need to define a new catalog for the user and then define an Alias in the > MCAT pointing to the new user cat > > Jerry Whitteridge > [email protected] > Manager Mainframe Systems & HP Non-Stop > Albertsons Companies > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Charles Mills > Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 3:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: EXTERNAL EMAIL: How get a user to use his own catalog rather than > master? > > I really apologize for the incredible newbie question. I am a developer; I > only pretend to be a sysadmin. > > I don't even know where to look for this answer. Is it a RACF question or > ??? > > I have defined a new user in RACF. Let's call him or her NEWUSER. I have > defined a generic profile 'NEWUSER.**' (with quotes!) and given NEWUSER > ACC(ALTER) to it. > > When NEWUSER tries to create a dataset it fails with > > ICH408I USER(NEWUSER ) GROUP(etc. > CATALOG.MASTER.xxxxxxx CL(DATASET ) VOL(xxxxxx) > INSUFFICIENT ACCESS AUTHORITY > FROM CATALOG.MASTER.** (G) > ACCESS INTENT(UPDATE ) ACCESS ALLOWED(READ ) > > What else do I need to do? I don't think I want to PERMIT NEWUSER to > CATALOG.MASTER.xxxxxxx; I think it should have its own catalog? Am I > confused or on the right track? > > Charles > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ________________________________ > Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the corporate e- > mail system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the > recipient. This e-mail may contain proprietary information and is intended > only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message > is > not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have received this > message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying > of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in > error, please notify the sender immediately. > ________________________________ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
