Can the owner be the owning group rather than a userid?
Regards Otto Schumacher HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS & Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29606 Cell: 864 569--5338 Tel: 864 987-1417 Fax: 864 987-4500 E-mail: otto.schumac...@hp.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 11:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IDCAMS DEFINE and OWNER I Believe the owner is an optional comment intended to have the TSO USERID of who to notify if there is a problem with the dataset. http://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/vstutor/vstutor.htm is a vsam tutorial for the VSAM Catalog era and ONWER was not an option before MVS/XA. Use ALTER cluster OWNER(userid) to change as desired. On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Sebastian Welton <sebast...@welton.de> wrote: > Just a quickie...I haven't been able to find much information on the OWNER > option when defining a dataset, what is exactly for? I have a lot of > datasets which have (NULL) but also defined a lot of datasets with a > different HLQ to me but with my user as OWNER. Someone was concerned that if > my user was to be deleted then they would have problems in some areas, i.e. > RACF but as far as I can tell this has no real meaning (maybe from a > reporting point of view.) > > Thanks, > > Sebastian > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
