And I suppose, you could fail to dub if you don't have a large enough region or who knows what else? At least querydub is going to let you gracefully handle a majority of the customer configuration errors that result in the 2 a.m. calls where your customer support has to ask, "have you defined an OMVS RACF segment for the user?" While we've had dozens of these issues, I can't remember ever having to tell a customer how to setup their UID or GID. Could it be better? Sure. Does it at least conform to an 80/20 rule? Certainly.
In article <caarmm9r74hfqppcxyobfhmvqpjev5ght5l2nczs16m_uvct...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > On 8 March 2017 at 11:20, Don Poitras <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's what querydub tells you. > Well, kind of... > > --- > > QDB_DUB_MAY_FAIL The task has not been dubbed; an attempt to dub the > > task may fail. The most likely reason for failure may be a missing or > > incomplete user security profile; or the lack of an OMVS segment. > And for > QDB_DUB_OKAY The task has not been dubbed; an attempt to dub > the task will probably succeed. The service has > determined that an OMVS segment exists for the > task. However, it has not checked for other > potential errors. It is possible that the task may not > have the proper UID and GID set up in the security > profile, causing a subsequent dub failure. > So you can get a QDB_DUB_OKAY from querydub(), and then it can fail on > exactly the kinds of security system setup things that I listed in the > post on MVS-OE. Have I mentioned how much I dislike this wishy-washy > approach to code and explanations in the UNIX world...? It took a fair > bit of complaining before IBM added the _BPX_SHAREAS=MUST option; > before that you could only set _BPX_SHAREAS=YES, and if it couldn't > honour it, well it just silently ignored it. > Tony H. -- Don Poitras - SAS Development - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive [email protected] (919) 531-5637 Cary, NC 27513 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
