To specify a catalog, you have to use IDCAMS DEFINE with the CATALOG parameter. If SAF allows it, you can specify any catalog you choose regardless of normal search order.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] From: retired mainframer <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 06/13/2014 12:16 PM Subject: Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> How does a user specify a specific catalog in JCL when defining a dataset? :>: -----Original Message----- :>: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On :>: Behalf Of willie bunter :>: Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 9:31 AM :>: To: [email protected] :>: Subject: Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT :>: :>: I found the cause of the problem. The user defined the dsn in a :>: specific USER CAT. In his JCL he specified the USER CAT name. He broke :>: the house rules of letting the system decide which USER CAT to has to be :>: allocated. Hence when the LISTCATs failed because the system was :>: looking at the default USER CAT. The REPRO MERGECAT of the ALIAS fixed :>: the problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
