Our original experience with this was handled rather primitively. Once a
usercat filled up we simply counted the aliases therein using listcat.
Whatever the evil number was, we simply made note of it and started defining
aliases in additional usercats. We currently use 12 catalogs to handle TSO
user related aliases. "Other" aliases, not related to TSO users are stored
in different usercats. Periodically we match aliases to our security files
and delete the orphans.
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Schwarz, Barry A
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 2:05 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Limit to the number of Aliases in a User Catalog
If you run the listcat in an IDCAMS batch job (not from TSO command line),
the last page of the listing contains a count for each different type of
entry. On my system, alias is the second type reported on.
Since your client is defining aliases, I wonder how they would expect you to
solve the problem. You wouldn't know which ones, if any, were obsolete and
could be deleted.
I also wonder how large shops (with more than 3000 TSO users) get around
this limitation. You don't want normal users updating the master catalog
and userid is a common hlq (even built into RACF).
-----Original Message-----
From: Kay Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 5:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Limit to the number of Aliases in a User Catalog
I did a listc and didn't see any information that would be useful. The
reason I'm asking is because we had a severity one incident because our
client could not define anymore aliases and they berated us for not
monitoring the catalog. I've never heard of that type of monitoring being
done before. I was wondering if anybody else is monitoring the number of
aliases associated with a user catalog and how are they doing it.
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