Alan, The submitter does have NEWRITE permissions. And nothing in that job erases the file. The job runs only once per day, and the File Type is the date, such as 20110419.
However, I didn't know that authority to write the file disappeared with the file if NEWRITE wasn't granted, so I learned something! Nora Graves nora.e.gra...@irs.gov Main IRS, Room 6531 (202) 622-6735 Fax (202) 622-3123 SE:W:CAR:MP:D:KS:BRSI -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 4:52 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SFS problem On Thursday, 04/14/2011 at 03:47 EDT, Graves Nora E <nora.e.gra...@irs.gov> wrote: > DMSOPN1258E You are not authorized to write to file XXXXXX 20110413 Z1 : > I've issued QUERY ACCESSED. The directory shows that is accessed R/W. > > When the write is unsuccessful, the program then loops through 5 tries of > releasing the access, reacquiring the access, and attempting to write the file > again. This has never been successful. I've issued both a COPYFILE and a > PIPE to try to write the file; these do not work once there has been a failure. > > We've looked at the operator consoles to see if we can find any jobs running > at the same time. We haven't found any that are accessing that directory > structure. > > There aren't any dumps to look at--it looks perfectly successful other than > the fact that it won't write the file. > > Does anyone have any suggestions of something to try next? As you can see, it's an authorization error. Does the worker/submittor have NEWRITE authority to the directory? If not, and some part of the job ERASEs the file from the directory and then tries to recreate it, it will fail, as the authority to the file is deleted if the file itself is deleted. In a FILECONTROL directory, R/W access to the directory does not imply R/W access to all the files in it! Alan Altmark z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott
