MCAT should certainly be READ for all but a handful of system support folks. The actions required here require MCAT update in two respects: MERGECAT deletes source entries from MCAT, while DEF ALIAS requires yet another update.
. . 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 Lizette Koehler Sent: Friday, September 22, 2017 2:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: MERGECAT QUESTION I guess one question not asked is how is the Master cat updated this way. I think a best practice is to have MCAT READ Access with only a few users who can update to add ALIASes and the like. If your MCAT is not READ, that may be a task you may wish to perform Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of esmie moo > Sent: Friday, September 22, 2017 8:16 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: MERGECAT QUESTION > > Gentle Readers, > We have about hundreds of user dsns which are cataloged in the MCAT > because the alias for the users were not defined.My question is the > sequence I should follow. For example do I define the ALIAS and then > perform the MERGECAT? or I perform the MERGECAT and then define the > ALIAS?I don't have a test system in which I can try it out. > Below is my jcl to run the > MERGECAT:/* //STEP1 EXEC > PGM=IDCAMS,REGION=2048K,TIME=1440 //DD1 DD VOL=SER=MCAT03,UNIT=SYSA > LLDA,DISP=OLD// DD VOL=SER=TST001,UNIT=SYSALLDA,DISP=OLD//SYSPRINT > DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN DD * > REPRO - > INDATASET(TSUT3.MCAT) - > OUTDATASET(USERCAT.APPLIC) - > LEVEL(CTPRT17) - > MERGECAT - > FILE(DD1) > /* // > Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
