Re: Catalog manipulation (was RE: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - EXPLANATION)

2014-06-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 22:20:33 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote: It certainly doesn't make sense to go to the overhead of creating a new USERCAT rather than a new alias to an existing USERCAT for each new TSO user -- unless perhaps you have a very small, fairly static number of TSO users. There are RACF

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - EXPLANATION

2014-06-16 Thread willie bunter
wrote: Subject: Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Received: Friday, June 13, 2014, 10:15 PM But Willie said it was done in JCL.  How? :: -Original Message- :: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On :: Behalf Of Skip

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT

2014-06-16 Thread willie bunter
wrote: Subject: Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Received: Friday, June 13, 2014, 10:43 AM You have already fixed the problem but you could have tried using the INCAT and ONLYINCAT operands on either a dataset DUMP or COPY operation. :: -Original Message

Catalog manipulation (was RE: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - EXPLANATION)

2014-06-16 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
a task. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of willie bunter Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 11:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - EXPLANATION Here is how the user bypassed

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - EXPLANATION

2014-06-16 Thread Ed Gould
in the CATALOG where the ALIAS T10D resides in. This floored me because I have never seen this parm with the ALIAS specified in the define cluster. On Fri, 6/13/14, retired mainframer retired-mainfra...@q.com wrote: Subject: Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT

Re: Catalog manipulation (was RE: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - EXPLANATION)

2014-06-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:44:53 -0500, Tony's Basement Computer wrote: This brings back memories of a small zOS shop I worked at in the late 90s. They routinely built user catalogs whose entire name was 8 characters or less, and intentionally happened to match a high level qualifier(s). Their

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT

2014-06-16 Thread retired mainframer
, 2014 9:24 AM :: To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :: Subject: Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT :: :: INCAT, COPY DUMP didn't work that is why I did the REPRO merge. :: Perhaps I may have been missing a parm. If you have an example I would :: appreciate it if you could give it to me. :: :: Thanks

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - EXPLANATION

2014-06-16 Thread retired mainframer
. :: -Original Message- :: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On :: Behalf Of willie bunter :: Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 9:13 AM :: To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :: Subject: Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - EXPLANATION :: :: Here is how the user bypassed

Re: Catalog manipulation (was RE: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - EXPLANATION)

2014-06-16 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 06/16/2014 07:10 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:44:53 -0500, Tony's Basement Computer wrote: This brings back memories of a small zOS shop I worked at in the late 90s. They routinely built user catalogs whose entire name was 8 characters or less, and intentionally

Re: Catalog manipulation (was RE: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - EXPLANATION)

2014-06-16 Thread Skip Robinson
QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - EXPLANATION) Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On 06/16/2014 07:10 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:44:53 -0500, Tony's Basement Computer wrote: This brings back memories of a small zOS shop I worked at in the late

Re: Catalog manipulation (was RE: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - EXPLANATION)

2014-06-16 Thread Ed Gould
On Jun 16, 2014, at 10:20 PM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: --SNIP-- I can't conceive of a production environment where you would want USERCAT choice to be left to users or application programmers rather than having it enforced via ALIAS definitions for

Re: Catalog manipulation (was RE: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - EXPLANATION)

2014-06-16 Thread Ed Gould
On Jun 16, 2014, at 11:00 PM, Skip Robinson wrote: Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. System programmers are from Earth, where a mature installation with a few decades of history under its belt has to deal with a multitude of HLQs each associated with an application and by implication

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT

2014-06-13 Thread Lizette Koehler
Please Provide a LISTC ENT(/) ALL of the vsam dataset Also, which catalog should it be in? It is really hard (in my opinion) to catalog VSAM in the wrong Catalog unless you were not working from the target system. Did you do an ALTER NEWNAME function to do this? Lizette -Original

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT

2014-06-13 Thread Mark Jacobs
Going with Lizette's comment, can you alter the dataset name so it can be found using the standard catalog search order, then use dss copy with the delete and renameu options to get it cataloged where you want it to be, and with the right DSN? Mark Jacobs On 06/13/14 10:49, Lizette Koehler

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT

2014-06-13 Thread willie bunter
/14, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: Subject: Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Received: Friday, June 13, 2014, 7:49 AM Please Provide a LISTC ENT(/) ALL of the vsam dataset Also, which catalog should it be in? It is really hard (in my opinion

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT

2014-06-13 Thread Staller, Allan
DEL 'entryname' nscr cat(wrong ucat) Def 'entryname' (other parameters) cat(correct ucat) Other parameters will depend on the type of dataset (LVSAM, seq, .) Another possibility is: repro mergecat ent('entryname) ifile(wrong ucat) ofile(correct ucat) HTH, snip -Original

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT

2014-06-13 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Lizette Koehler wrote: Please Provide a LISTC ENT(/) ALL of the vsam dataset Good request! With that command, the standard search order is used, but according to Willie it is not there. Willie, please try out the command and post the results. It is really hard (in my opinion) to catalog VSAM

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - PROBLEM FIXED

2014-06-13 Thread willie bunter
, willie bunter 001409bd2345-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: Subject: Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Received: Friday, June 13, 2014, 8:07 AM When I do the LISTCAT it doesn' find the dsn.  I am not sure how the dsn was cataloged in the wrong catalog

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - PROBLEM FIXED

2014-06-13 Thread Staller, Allan
STEPCAT has been gone for (IIRC) about 7 or 8 years. ISTR. z/OS 1.9... snip I was able to rectify the problem by using the MERGECAT option since there was only 1 dsn for that specific ALIAS. I got a rude shock to find out that STEPCAT DD is no longer allowed. Ouch. Has anybody been able to

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT

2014-06-13 Thread willie bunter
/14, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Subject: Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Received: Friday, June 13, 2014, 8:13 AM Lizette Koehler wrote: Please Provide a LISTC ENT(/) ALL of the vsam dataset Good request! With that command

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT

2014-06-13 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
willie bunter wrote: I found the cause of the problem. The user defined the dsn in a specific USER CAT. In his JCL he specified the USER CAT name. He broke the house rules of letting the system decide which USER CAT to has to be allocated. Check out FACILITY Class profile

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - PROBLEM FIXED

2014-06-13 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 16:02:49 +, Staller, Allan wrote: STEPCAT has been gone for (IIRC) about 7 or 8 years. ISTR. z/OS 1.9... You might be right about when STEPCAT/JOBCAT were removed completely, but they were never allowed with SMS managed data sets. The following is from MVS/DFP 3.3:

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT

2014-06-13 Thread John McKown
Agree. A desperate measure would be to beat the user abruptly about the head and shoulders On Jun 13, 2014 12:04 PM, Tom Marchant 000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:30:46 -0700, willie bunter wrote: Does anyone know of a way of doing what I tried to

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT

2014-06-13 Thread retired mainframer
You have already fixed the problem but you could have tried using the INCAT and ONLYINCAT operands on either a dataset DUMP or COPY operation. :: -Original Message- :: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On :: Behalf Of willie bunter :: Sent: Friday, June

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT

2014-06-13 Thread retired mainframer
: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT :: :: When I do the LISTCAT it doesn' find the dsn. I am not sure how the dsn :: was cataloged in the wrong catalog. :: The user asked for my help. If I need to ALTER the dsn to use the right :: catalog is there a STEPCAT parm that needs to be used

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT

2014-06-13 Thread retired mainframer
: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT :: :: I found the cause of the problem. The user defined the dsn in a :: specific USER CAT. In his JCL he specified the USER CAT name. He broke :: the house rules of letting the system decide which USER CAT to has to be :: allocated. Hence when the LISTCATs failed

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT

2014-06-13 Thread Skip Robinson
-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: retired mainframer retired-mainfra...@q.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 06/13/2014 12:16 PM Subject:Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT

2014-06-13 Thread retired mainframer
But Willie said it was done in JCL. How? :: -Original Message- :: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On :: Behalf Of Skip Robinson :: Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 3:04 PM :: To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :: Subject: Re: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT