As I said in my response to Gil, I never heard of the warning about user access to USS container files. Sounds ominous, but I trust in the overarching power of ignorance. ;-)
. . . 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] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 9:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Catalog for OMVS datasets No real concerns either way in a single system shop. However, if you do Sysplex Shared filesystem "SYSPLEX(YES)" in BPXPRMxx then there is a requirement for them to be in a usercat connected to all systems that are sharing or you will have problems. We happen to have ours in their own usercat, and everything is OMVSU.**. A side note to a comment I saw Skip make in his response about the physical file system dataset name and the fact that in his shop individual users filesystems start with a dataset name of their userid's. There is something in the OMVS config guide that talks about the fact that a "user" shouldn’t have access to the physical dataset container, as that is considered a security issue(not sure how). _________________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Engineering [email protected] 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David G. Schlecht Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 11:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Catalog for OMVS datasets Hello all, How do you catalog your OMVS datasets? My predecessor created a catalog in which he put a few OMVS dataset definitions. However, it never really got used. We only have a few dozen OMVS file systems so it doesn’t seem to make sense to have a catalog just for them. What is common practice? What do you do? Do you have a separate catalog for your OMVS datasets? If so, what’s your reasoning? David G. Schlecht | Information Technology Professional State of Nevada | Department of Administration | Enterprise IT Services T:(775)684-4328 | F: (775) 684‐4324 | E:[email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
