Re: Re: In over my head again...

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 2:57 PM, ScottC <[email protected]>wrote:

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> --- In [email protected] <turnkey-mvs%40yahoogroups.com>, Ron
> Hudson <hudson.ra@...> wrote:
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> > Well It's sink or swim! I am trying to create a user catalog
> Why?
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Why create a new user catalog, or why "Sink or Swim"
The former is answered below.

The latter is that I have been exposed many times to Mainframe type
computers, but never had
any experience. So I am trying to run Hercules / MVS 28J as a production
machine might be run
to some extent (I am also doing some programming and that might not happen
on a production
machine unless perhaps the shop only has one machine)


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> > Because: 1) I am tired of always having to type the password
> > (sys1.vmastcat has an update password)
>

Actually I finally removed the password  but I plan to put it back.


> > 2) Users in the master catalog is frowned on in the
> "real world"
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> I think the following will be sufficient for your stated objectives:
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> //HERC01A JOB CLASS=C,REGION=0K,NOTIFY=HERC01
> //***
> //*** Define aliases for High-level qualifiers suitable for
> //*** your site.
> //*** New 'USER01' datasets can be allocated without P/W.
> //***
> //IDCAMS EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
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> //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
> //SYSIN DD *
> DEFINE ALIAS (NAME(USER01) RELATE(SYS1.UCAT.TSO)) -
> CATALOG(SYS1.VMASTCAT/SECRET)
> //
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> What is the sys1.ucat.tso catalog used for? Should users be adding things
to it.

I am trying to learn how one of these machines is operated in production so
if a
production shop would not use a system catalog for production work, I don't
want
to either.




> Messing around with creating your own user catalog at this stage of the
> game is not worth it.
>

Learning. Always worth it. but sometimes one needs help.

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> ScottC
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