On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 10:36:49 -0500, Rebecca Martin <[email protected]> wrote:

> I could at least take the ISP datasets and create actual SYS1 datasets and 
> then check RACF. 
> There are too many to take that approach for all of them.

If IBM can't provide a solution, then you can use system exits. Whatever you 
choose will be expensive but open will probably be most expensive. You should 
have an honest discussion on benefit versus cost. You're going to have some 
risk no matter the solution you choose. Some of my suggestions:

1. See if there is system symbol exits or if user dynamic system symbols are 
possible. If possible, this would be your best solution. Every time specific 
variables are encountered, you know to log the entry. By modifying the RELATE 
to include the variable, you're not processing every file. Instead, you only 
see the desired files.

2. Alternatively, dynamic alloc exit and jcl Converter/Interpreter exit can 
look at the DSN's allocated. Both exits must be used because they are different 
allocation types.

3. I would NOT use the open exit because it may cause a lot of overhead.

4. You should consider calling PC routines from the exits that writes 
everything to the home address space. You say "too many" which means exhausting 
addr space storage is less likely to impact the system than using CSA. 
Additionally, built in abend recovery is flexible.

5. Be sure to use TRT rather sequential search to reduce overhead.

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