Re: In over my head again...

> Ron Hudson wrote:

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

Hi Ron,

Feel free to ignore 'help' which doesn't lead to understanding why something is not working the way it should.  IMHO it is better to figure out what is going on instead of accepting someone else's opinion of what you 'need'.

This evening I inited a 3350, attached it to 141, ICKDSFed it, mounted it storage, and ran the IDCAMS job on Jay's site with the single UCUSER01 as a usercatalog and USER01 as the alias.

It completed successfully with completion code 0 and afterward there was no problem allocating a dataset with USER01 as the high level without the 'password' WTO.  Whatever is going on in your situation may require more info from you in order for the many who are willing to figure things like this out.  The resolution may also assist someone else who encounters similar difficulty.

Posting the 'dasdinit' command string you used to create the dasd, the ICKDSF job stream used to init the pack, you already posted a d u,,,141,1 which shows the mounted status.  The actual jobstream messages would allow lookup of the problem in the messages and codes manuals.

Phil

  DEFINE USERCATALOG ( -
     NAME (UCUSER01) -
     VOLUME (USER01) -
     TRACKS (8324 0) -
     FOR (9999) ) -
       DATA (TRACKS (15 5) ) -
       INDEX (TRACKS (15) )

IDC0510I CATALOG ALLOCATION STATUS FOR VOLUME USER01 IS 0

IDC0001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 0


  DEFINE ALIAS (NAME(USER01) -
     RELATE(UCUSER01) )

IDC0001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 0