This brings back memories of a small zOS shop I worked at in the late 90s. They routinely built user catalogs whose entire name was 8 characters or less, and intentionally happened to match a high level qualifier(s). Their reasoning for this practice was that they did not have to define aliases. This shop supported a number of retail businesses whose datasets were all peculiar to their business, each branch having its own user catalog. When I inquired about the why and wherefore the response was "it's too much trouble to define an alias." Personally I never thought it was all that tough a task.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of willie bunter Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 11:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - EXPLANATION Here is how the user bypassed the standard CATALOG search : DEFINE CLUSTER - ( NAME(MRP01.FOCUS.APPLIC.I0001.A001) - LINEAR - REUSE - CYLINDERS(100 200) - SHAREOPTIONS(3 3) ) - DATA - ( NAME(MRP01.FOCUS.APPLIC.I0001.A001) - ) - CATALOG(T10D) By specificying the parm CATALOG(T10D) the CLUSTER was created in the CATALOG where the ALIAS T10D resides in. This floored me because I have never seen this parm with the ALIAS specified in the define cluster. -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 6/13/14, retired mainframer <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT To: [email protected] Received: Friday, June 13, 2014, 10:15 PM But Willie said it was done in JCL. How? :>: -----Original Message----- :>: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On :>: Behalf Of Skip Robinson :>: Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 3:04 PM :>: To: [email protected] :>: Subject: Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT :>: :>: 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. :>: :>: From: retired mainframer :>: 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:IBM- :>: [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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
