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

On a related note, the  "master catalog prompt", is not exactly
user-friendly  / informative, unless you know what it means ... like
much / most of MVS ;)

Is the text of that message "buried" in object code somewhere, or is
it in a human-readable SYS1.xxxx library somewhere?

I guess it would probably violate the "spirit" of MVS / IBMese, if the
message said something like :  :/

"JOB xxx : Enter master catalog password"


On 4/25/10, au1john <au1john-/[email protected]> wrote:
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>>What is the sys1.ucat.tso catalog used for?
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> SYS1.UCAT.TSO IS the user catalog allocated for TSO users datasets to be
> catalogued in.
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>>Should users be adding things to it.
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> Yes, they should.
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>>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.
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> This IS how things have been done in production environments. There is a
> separate user catalog for TSO users. There would also be other user catalogs
> for other HLQ's in the shop. There would be HLQ's for common libraries and
> data storage (e.g. the compilers, sort, local COPYLIBs/MACLIBs, Source
> libraries). Then, as some shops, especially in those days, would run
> production and development on the one machine separate HLQ's for production
> and development data.
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> It has been some time since I had TK3 up, and am not in a position to be
> able to bring it up, but if I recall correctly, the sample ADDUSER job not
> only defined the user but also added the user alias to the master catalog
> pointing to SYS1.UCAT.TSO.
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