"So if you plan to use anything other than 'SYS1' for such purposes, be sure that you put the whole set into MCAT."
Or use volsers in your PROGxx members if that's a practical alternative. In our newer environments (all DB2) we use one single SYSRES and all link-listed libraries are on that SYSRES. Every LNKLST and APF member in PROGxx has VOLUME(&SYSRS1) coded. No catalog involved. In our older environments it's pretty much the same thing, except that we have a couple of local libraries that are not on SYSRES. We hard code the VOLSER as they never move. Bart -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Monday, September 25, 2017 3:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SYS3 datasets As others have said, there is no universal rule, just conventions adopted in each shop--or in each mind! I personally think that 'SYS3' for 3rd party products is a pretty cute mnemonic, but it's certainly not pervasive. One requirement that we recently got reminded of is that a link list data sets must be cataloged in the master catalog for 'normal' processing. You can use a user cataloged data set with restrictions: "If you plan to use a user catalog, you should be aware that the system will not find the data set unless you specify both the name of the data set and the volume serial number (VOLSER) of the DASD volume on which the data set resides. (This restriction also applies if you are defining the LNKLST concatenation in LNKLSTxx.)" Specifically, we tried to link-list a user catalog library just for an IEFSSNxx init routine. Module was not found. So if you plan to use anything other than 'SYS1' for such purposes, be sure that you put the whole set into MCAT. . . 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
