On Thursday, 12/06/2007 at 10:23 EST, Colin Allinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a shared RACF database (3 VM systems running RACF 5.3 & a number of MVS > systems). > > Recently the z/OS systems upgraded to 1.7 and they found a discrepancy in the > database (that may have been there for ages) but that 1.4 did not report. > > It seems that there was an index entry pointing to a VMBATCH resource that did > not exist. > > For now, we are OK because we have redefined both the user and the resource so > z/OS 1.7 is happy - even though there are 2 index entries for the same > resource. > > What I don't understand is how we could have got into this situation. Our > security admin people normally manage VMBATCH resources from VM - but could > have done something on z/OS. > > Because we have no idea when this occurred (or what happened) it is very
> difficult to follow this up. If we could recreate it (on the Test System) then > we would have something to work with. > > Does anyone have any ideas? z/OS 1.4 was pre-dynamic templates. z/OS 1.7 is post-dynamic templates. You need to talk to the (z/OS RACF) support center about the reports you ran and exactly what they reported. (And I presume you upgraded the templates as part of the RACF FL530 installation.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
