Yes, it is possible to move files cataloged to the master onto an alias under a user catalog.
It's been a while since I've done this but you probably have to define an alias different from the "first" level of your files. For example, if you have files, "aaa.bbb" that are defined to the master; then, the new alias can't be "aaa"; it has to be something different like "aa1". Once the new alias has been defined, then the catalog pointers need to be merged onto the new user cat. If you have a utility such as TREX or Catalog Solutions, these utilities make this work much easier but IDCAMS can also do the merge of these records. Being user files, you may be able to just rename the files to your new alias provided these are not in use and there are no VSAM files involved; you can't rename a VSAM to an alias that's in a different catalog than the original vsam. Thanks, Hervey -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jake anderson Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Fwd: User datasets wrongly catalogued under Master Catalogue "I agree that this happens when a userid is defined with alias relating to user catalog." typo - it happens when a userid is *not* defined with alias relating to user catalog. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jake anderson <justmainfra...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:11 AM Subject: User datasets wrongly catalogued under Master Catalogue To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Hi, Recently We have installed a new system Z/OS 1.13. During migration the Users datasets were restored and unfortunately all the user datasets are catalogued under Master catalogue. I agree that this happens when a userid is defined with alias relating to user catalog. I am just trying to understand if it is possible to move all the users dataset catalogued under master catalogue to a user catalogue since the Number of datasets are in big number. Jake ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
