Bob, are you sure you really want to create a new master catalog?  Or, do you 
really want to use your existing master catalog and existing user catalogs, or 
perhaps create some new user catalogs connected to your existing master 
catalog?  The point is, if you use your existing master catalog then you don't 
need to provide, and z/OSMF won't create and use, temporary catalog aliases.

Sadly, as you are observing, you modified the data set names in the generated 
jobs so the actual data sets now don't match the configuration expected by 
z/OSMF.  Hence the errors creating the workflow instances.  Other than rename 
the data sets as expected by z/OSMF there is no way to fix this error.

If you really want to proceed on your current path, then you need to rename or 
recreate the data sets as z/OSMF expects.  Perhaps you can update your ACS 
routines, or define a STORCLAS, to create zFS data sets that have an HLQ other 
than OMVS.  If you can't do either, then I suggest you consider changing your 
configuration to use your existing master catalog so you can use your existing 
OMVS HLQ.  I suspect this is what you really wanted to do anyway.

Kurt Quackenbush
IBM  |  z/OS SMP/E and z/OSMF Software Management  |  [email protected]
Chuck Norris never uses CHECK when he applies PTFs.

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Richards, Robert B. (CTR)
Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2022 11:30 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [EXTERNAL] z/OSMF Portable Software Instance - Deployment Question

I have a z/OSMF Software Management question that I hope someone on IBM-Main 
can provide me with the answer.

I was on the Configure CATALOGs page of a z/OS 2.5 deployment and successfully 
provided the Temporary Catalog Alias entries for three HLQs.

The issue was the fourth HLQ - OMVS. Everything I tried failed.

The alias of OMVS is already defined in our driving system's Master Catalog and 
RELATEd to a shared user catalog. Because our ACS routines only allow a HLQ of 
OMVS to allocate to the "HFS/ZFS" pool, I knew any other HLQ would not work. 
For the record, all OMVS.* data sets that I was trying to allocate would be 
unique in our driving system's master catalog. I was unable to get off of this 
webpage without specifying a Temporary Catalog Alias for it, so I specified one 
and moved on to let the six jobs be generated. Subsequently, I edited the job 
that creates and populates the OMVS datasets to REMOVE that Temporary Catalog 
Alias wherever it was referenced and submitted the job to a successful 
conclusion.

Next, I moved onto "Perform Workflows" and was instantly stopped with 21 errors 
looking for the OMVS datasets containing the Temporary Catalog Alias.OMVS.*

I do not know how to get out if this situation and there does not appear to be 
anyway to bypass/rectify it. All three workflows produce the same set of errors.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Bob



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