Re: re-Initialize different types of VSAM files

2017-09-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
I think the MQ group might still be able to help.. 1) Why do you not want to DEL/DEF the VSAM, it would be the best 2) Have you reviewed the available utilities available to MQ to see if any of them could assist 3) Which MQ datasets? Page? Other? Lizette > -Original Message- >

re-Initialize different types of VSAM files

2017-09-16 Thread Donald Likens
This is for MQ but really not related. MQ has a number of VSAM files. I need to make these files empty for an upgrade so I can reformat them. I want to do this without deleting and reallocating them. These are linear and KSDS VSAM files. I tried allocating a new Linear VSAM file and REPROing it

Re: STC - APF - confusion

2017-09-16 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
Here it is as simply as I can put it. If the first program executed by an EXEC PGM= is AC(1), AND ALL the STEPLIB libraries, if any, are APF authorized, then all the branched/LINK/LOAD or ATTACH programs run authorized. If any library in the STEPLIB concatenation is unauthorized, it is like

STC - APF - confusion

2017-09-16 Thread scott Ford
All, I have a COBOL written STC that is single thread socket server. It receives messages that are RACF commands and then calls a module which calls r_ admin. My question is this, when I initially started working with this code , it was AC (1) , I didn't think anything about it. But we are in the