Florian Luetscher wrote:

>I would like to give a group of users access to browse and only browse a VSAM 
>dataset using DITTO. 

As Binyamin Dissen said, just give Read access. 

>The DITTO/ESA Inst. and Cust. Guide references a RACF profile 
>DITTO.VSAM.UPDATE. But that's exactly what I dont want to give them. Maybe 
>access to PROGRAM(DITTO) is enough.

You can use PROGRAM(DITTO) which is useful for limiting usage of DITTO itself 
for example, but not for above scenario for VSAM datasets.

>Any idea how to proper set up RACF in this case? 

Try giving access to DITTO.VSAM.UPDATE in FACILITY Class to certain 
persons/groups and create DITTO.** and give it UACC = Read. (See Binyamin's 
note above.)

Or just use this for example:

DITTO.FUNCTION.VB  <-- Browsing VSAM datasets. Give UACC=READ.
DITTO.FUNCTION.VE  <-- Editing VSAM datasets. Give specific access as needed.
DITTO.**                  <-- To close all remaining DITTO holes.

Remember to protect your VSAM datasets properly too. This is more important. 
Protect the resources, not the tools only.

That should get you a go.

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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