Users probably need read access to mcat so they can access SYS1.MACLIB and others like it.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson > Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 5:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How get a user to use his own catalog rather than master? > > Maybe I need a make-up class at Saturday morning vocab class. Then again > maybe it's > a distinction without a difference. Here's why you do *not* want to > over-grant update > access to the master catalog. > > -- For the average user, there should be some user catalog pointed to by an > alias in > mcat. There is no need for access to mcat. All ucats need to be managed and > subjected > to regular housekeeping. > > -- For someone who genuinely needs update or greater access to the master > catalog, > failure to create a ucat alias causes *all* data sets created by the user to > go into mcat. > This insidious result can go unnoticed for a long period. Getting the mcat > cleaned up > can be arduous, time consuming, and disruptive. > > As for whether gratuitous update access to mcat is a 'security' or an > 'integrity' problem, > extensive damage is possible. Simply deleting ucat aliases from mcat can > bring a > system to its knees. This is without touching a single customer data set. > Don't let it > happen. > > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW > [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
