Rich, A couple items you need to implement to address this. First is to make the master catalog read-only to the vast majority of your world, then to implement protect-all. The first will keep rogue items from showing up in your master catalog, the second will keep people from willy-nilly adding whatever they want as high level qualifiers. If there ain't a RACF profile to protect it, it doesn't get created.
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Way, Richard Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 12:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Prevent allocation of unknown-HLQ data sets? Realize this is a pretty basic question, but my Google-fu isn't working out today.... Can someone tell me the most common / easiest way to prevent allocating a data set that doesn't have a catalog alias defined yet? We're hitting situations where someone creates a data set by the HLQ of "TEST", for example, and because no one created an ALIAS for TEST to a USERCAT, the catalog entries for those data sets go straight into the MASTERCAT. I'm almost certain there's a way to do this, but I am struggling whether it's usually done by RACF or if there's a better / easier way... Thanks in advance Rich Way HPE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
