Re: In over my head again...

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Ilmars Sermulis <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Hi Ron:
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> This may be a shot in the dark, as I am new to this step as well.
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> I assume that you still have the password enabled for the Master Catalog.
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> When you submitted the JCL to define the user catalog, did you notice 2
> obscure prompts from the job on the operator console?  If they appear, then
> the master catalog is expecting the password to be entered at these prompts,
> since the password does not appear in your JCL..  When I ignore these
> prompts, and the job terminates, I get an error code of 56 (not the 52 that
> you get) but it might be related.
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> In order to embed the password in your JCL you can insert statements as I
> have illustrated below. Just change SYSPROG to whatever password you have
> set for the master catalog*.  *And also enter the continuation hyphen
> character on the preceding line.
>

I have, for the moment removed the password from my master catalog but I
seem to think that the mastercatalog's name is
SYS1.VMASTCAT

At lease that is what requires a password every time I as a user create a
new dataset.


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> Again, you may have already taken this into account and I may be on the
> wrong track.  Hope this helps...
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> Ilmars
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> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Ron Hudson <[email protected]>
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Sent:* Sunday, April 25, 2010 5:23 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [turnkey-mvs] In over my head again...
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> 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.
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> Did this now the error is "IDC3225I REQUIRED (SUB)PARAMETER IS OF 'RECORDS'
> IS MISSING"
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>>   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.
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> 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.
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>>
>> Rick
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>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>> Ron Hudson wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> Well It's sink or swim!  I am trying to create  a user catalog
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>> 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"
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> 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
>> ===
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>> d u,dasd,online,141 shows:
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>> unit 141, Type 3350, Status O, Volser USER01, Volstat STRG/RSDNT
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>> Thanks !
>> Ron
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