I don't think any kind of symbolics can be used in RACF profiles, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
In the (RACF Commands Language Reference) description of the HOME sub-parameter for ADDUSER ... "The fully qualified pathname should be specified. RACF does not ensure that a valid pathname has been specified." Also, I think your /etc/u.map should contain an allocuser statement to have the user zFS automatically created if it doesn't exist. E.g. allocuser space(2,1) cyl unit(disk) Ant. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, 4 March 2015 8:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Symbol in OMVS HOME directory? On 2015-03-03 15:20, Matthew Stitt wrote: > > FWIW, here is the command used from a simple CLIST which creates the user id > on my system: > > OMVS(AUTOUID > HOME('/u/&SYSLC(&USER)') > PROGRAM('/bin/sh') > > Notice we translate the user id to lower case. > That's probably a mistake. In JCL, I'm repeatedly frustrated that I can't code "//HOME DD PATH='/u/&SYSUID',..." to refer to an arbitrary user's HOME directory. OTOH, JCL would much benefit from a predefined JCL symbol, &SYSHOME expanding to the user's HOME directory from the RACF OMVS segment. In Rexx, it's easy enough: it's among the values set by "SYSCALL getpwuid". And allocation would likewise benefit from the ability to code relative paths and tilde expansion. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
