I have not tried this, but IBM supplies a RACF started task whose purpose is to issue RACF commands via a console. As supplied, the RACF STC has no DDs, but I suppose you could add one for the primary and maybe even alternate RACF data base(s) with DISP=SHR. The hard part of coding such a task has already been done. Stopping it seems to require FORCE ARM, but you wouldn't stop it very often anyway.
--------------------------------------------------------- . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 11:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: RACF Database (was: Sample JCL for file transfer using NJE/TCPIP) I've been expecting someone with actual experience in this area to jump in. I don't think you can get away with 'wait forever' logic. Eventually you'll get S522 abend. OTOH XCFAS, which preserves a permanent enqueue on LINKLIST libraries, seems to be very busy doing something, accumulating both CPU time and EXCP count. Maybe there's something on CBT? <snip> -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, May 22, 2017 4:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: RACF Database (was: Sample JCL for file transfer using NJE/TCPIP) On Mon, 22 May 2017 17:44:16 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote: >RECFM PSU may prevent moving the database, but it doesn't block >deletion. After realizing this somewhat-essential data set wasn't >protected by an enqueue, we picked an installation started task that >was normally running all the time (but which could be shut down if need >be), and added an unreferenced DD for the RACF database with DISP=SHR >to reduce the odds of both accidental deletion and movement. > Suppose one wanted to craft a started task expressly for that purpose, using minimum resource. Would it suffice to WAIT on an ECB that you never POSTed? Would this annoy WLM? Is there a better way? Should it intercept a STOP command and WTOR with an Abort/Retry/Ignore prompt? What's the OS Classic analogue of SIGINT? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
