On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 at 11:08, Radoslaw Skorupka <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just found found the following OPERCMDS profile: MVS.PURGE.MSS > Current manual says it is for PURGE command. However another current > manual does not document such command. > Note, it is not JES2 command. > > Q: what is it? Is it something related to IBM 3850 MSS?
That seems unlikely to me, just based on there being no overlap between the time that the 3850 was supported and the time RACF had any role in authorizing operator commands. A long shot, but I wonder if it's a mistaken understanding of what the abbreviation "P" is for. In z/OS and going back to OS/360 days, it's short for STOP (because S was already the abbreviation for START). But (as you hint at), HASP/JES2 used similar command abbreviations but with sometimes different mappings, hence P=PURGE. But... In many place the operations staff was casual about what the commands meant - so very often one heard of "purging task/job x" meaning issuing a P command. Is it possible such folk etymology made its way into RACF? Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
