Re: In over my head again...

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Rick Fochtman <[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> Ron, you've specified the size of the catalog twice. Remove the
> "tracks(8324)" specification from your define.
>
Did this now the error is "IDC3225I REQUIRED (SUB)PARAMETER IS OF 'RECORDS'
IS MISSING"


> Also, are you trying to define a VSAM UCAT, or a catalog for non-vsam files
> that belong to users other than the operating system? If you don't need the
> catalog for VSAM clusters and dataspaces, a SYSCTLG dataset would be far
> more useful to you.
>
This is meant to be where the users keep their own datasets -  I am real new
to this so I am not sure what VSAM means..
Google looks like it's just a filesystem or the order and access of files on
a disk drive..  I will personally be writing programs
in FORTRAN and perhaps COBOL. When I get good perhaps even assembler.

>
> Rick
>
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>
> Ron Hudson wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> Well It's sink or swim!  I am trying to create  a user catalog
>
> Because: 1) I am tired of always having to type the password
> (sys1.vmastcat has an update password)
>               2) Users in the master catalog is frowned on in the "real
> world"
>
> I have used dasdinit to create a new 3350 DASD (300 mb goes a long way
> right?)
> Attached it to address 141
> Initialized it with a JCL from here:
> http://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/installmvs/adddasd.htm
> mounted it as STORAGE
> Added it to the VATLIST (as storage) using RPF to edit
> sys1.parmlib.VATLST01
>
> Now I can run the JCL from
> http://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/installmvs/instmvs5.htm
> to create the user catalog... but I get an error: code 52 reason IGG0CLBU-0
>
> Google finds nothing about the reason code.
> I have checked the typed in JCL (which I had to modify from the website
> example)
> It looks OK to me..
> ===
> 00010 //DEFUCATS JOB USER=HERCAD,CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=A,MSGLEVEL=(1,1)
> 00020 //IDCAMS   EXEC  PGM=IDCAMS,REGION=4096K
> 00030 //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A
> 00040 //USER01   DD UNIT=3350,VOL=SER=USER01,DISP=OLD
> 00050 //SYSIN    DD *
> 00052
> 00060    DEFINE USERCATALOG (   -
> 00070        NAME (UCUSER01) -
> 00080        VOLUME (USER01) -
> 00090        TRACKS (8324 0) -
> 00100        FOR (9999) )    -
> 00110           DATA (TRACKS (15 5) ) -
> 00120           INDEX (TRACKS (15)  )
> 00125
> 00130    DEFINE ALIAS (NAME (USER01)  -
> 00135           RELATE (UCUSER01) )
> 00137
> 00140 /*
> 00150 //
> END OF DATA
> ===
>
> d u,dasd,online,141 shows:
>
> unit 141, Type 3350, Status O, Volser USER01, Volstat STRG/RSDNT
>
> Thanks !
> Ron
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