Thanks to all who have responded so far, and apologies for not responding sooner (other work took precedence, unfortunately).
Trouble is - I'm no closer to a solution (but I haven't tried the GTF/IPCS idea yet). More on this if&when I have some news Thanks again Sean On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 22:44, Tom Marchant < [email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 00:13:25 -0500, Bruce Hewson wrote: > > >SMS will catalog in the MASTER CATALOG. It does override the > >access rules. It really is important that ALIAS entries are defined > >for any GROUP or USER created. If the USER has access to create > >the dataset then SMS will catalog that dataset. I have plenty of > >evidence to this. > > I knew I'd seen situations where it did not, so I did a quick search. > > > https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.adru000/r2109.htm > > <quote> > SMS-managed data sets: > Access to SMS-managed data sets gives you access to the user catalog > for the data sets. However, for a RACF-protected master catalog, you > also need UPDATE-access authority to add or delete an SMS-managed > data set entry. > </quote> > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
