On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 15:58:10 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote: >RACF is not allowing an ENQ on a DSN, because RACF has no idea >that an ENQ is being done. If anyone were to control that, it would >be data set allocation, who would have to invoke RACF to ask if >the user would have authority to eventually OPEN the data set. > >(And, by the way, it's a difficult question for RACF to answer or >more properly for allocation to ask, for several reasons. Among >them, the possibility of discrete profiles means that until the >data set is allocated so the DSCB can be read, allocation doesn't >have all the necessary information to pass to RACF.)
It is even more difficult for RACF to answer the question if the data set may only be accessed by certain programs. -- Tom Marchant
