One more thing Charles, I know you are working on the Dallas EDP systems. If and when you get migrated to a new z/OS, you will lose user entries in MCAT.
IBM will expect that you will take care of IMPORT connect of your user catalogs to the new MCAT. On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:46 AM Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> wrote: > If you didn't already have the ALIAS set up, there could be datasets > catalogued in MCAT. If so, clean them up ASAP and start over. > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 9:42 AM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Use one command for each user: >> >> DEF ALIAS(NAME('foo') RELATE(' existing catalog')) >> DEF ALIAS(NAME('bar') RELATE(' existing catalog')) >> DEF ALIAS(NAME('baz') RELATE(' existing catalog')) >> >> >> -- >> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 >> >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf >> of Charles Mills <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 7:27 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: EXTERNAL EMAIL: How get a user to use his own catalog rather >> than master? >> >> Well geez, now you tell me, after I have it all working. :-) >> >> I followed @John McKown's instructions: DEF ALIAS(NAME('NEWUSER') >> RELATE('name of existing user high level catalog')) >> >> 1. How would I decide whether to give the user his or her own catalog? I >> would guess I do *not* need one. There will be a handful of very >> specialized userids with zero or nearly zero long-term cataloged datasets. >> >> 2. What would the above command look like if NEWUS01 through NEWUS20 were >> all going to share the same user catalog? >> >> Charles >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Gibney, David Allen >> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 3:40 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: EXTERNAL EMAIL: How get a user to use his own catalog rather >> than master? >> >> It is a bit of an overkill for each individual user to have their own >> catalog 😊 >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > > -- > Wayne V. Bickerdike > > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
