On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 13:45:18 +0000, Allan Staller wrote:

>I there was a change in OMVS to show a consistent UID when the UID was shared.
>This was IIRC, predominantly targeted at UID 0.
>Not sure when it came in. Check the migration manuals.
>
Use either:
    ls -la /etc/.  # I prefer this, or:
    ls -Lla /etc

I don't see why this behavior is a consequence of that change.

Systems that I consider more user-friendly than z/OS resolve such symbols
in the mount maps rather than in symlinks.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek)
>Sent: Monday, June 18, 2018 8:33 AM
>
>With z/OS 2.2 the command:  ls -la /etc returns:
>
>total 1644
>drwxr-xr-x  16 MVSTCP   OMVSGRP     8192 Aug 10  2016 .
>drwxr-xr-x  17 MVSTCP   OMVSGRP     8192 Oct 19  2017 ..
>-rwxr-xr-x   1 MVSTCP   OMVSGRP    24486 Mar 19  2009 CSDIBMEF
>drwxr-xr-x   2 MVSTCP   OMVSGRP      256 Sep 25  2008 Printsrv
>-rwx------   1 MVSTCP   OMVSGRP       85 Jul 28  2016 auto.master
>drwxr-xr-x   2 MVSTCP   OMVSGRP      256 Sep 25  2008 bpa
>
>But on z/OS 2.3 it returns this:
>
>lrwxrwxrwx   1 OMVSKERN IPGROUP       12 Oct 29  2014 /etc -> $SYSNAME/etc
>
>Why this change and did I just miss this in the upgrade documentation?
>
>Thanks

-- gil

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