That restriction has been in place for eons. From one point of view, it is meaningless for file control directories. One can access the files without accessing the directory. (PIPE ... | > fn ft dirid, for example.) It is impossible to tell who is using the files simply by seeing who has accessed the directory.
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Ackerman > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 9:00 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Error using command QUERY ACCESSORS VMSYS: > > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:24:15 -0400, Bruce Hayden > <[email protected]> wro= > te: > > >What did you expect? The help for QUERY ACCESSORS says: > >"Use the QUERY ACCESSORS command to display information > about current > >accessors of directory control directories." > >Since you don't have any directory control directories > (meaning all of > >the directories in VMSYS are file control directories, which is the > >default), you get that message. > > Can someone explain this restriction to me. If I have > accessed a file mod= e directory, doesn't the SFS server know that? > > It's annoying to have to change directories to dirmode just > to find out w= ho is using them -- and risk breaking > someone's application. > > Alan Ackerman > Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com >
