I guess one question not asked is how is the Master cat updated this way. I think a best practice is to have MCAT READ Access with only a few users who can update to add ALIASes and the like.
If your MCAT is not READ, that may be a task you may wish to perform Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of esmie moo > Sent: Friday, September 22, 2017 8:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: MERGECAT QUESTION > > Gentle Readers, > We have about hundreds of user dsns which are cataloged in the MCAT because > the alias for the users were not defined.My question is the sequence I should > follow. For example do I define the ALIAS and then perform the MERGECAT? or I > perform the MERGECAT and then define the ALIAS?I don't have a test system in > which I can try it out. > Below is my jcl to run the > MERGECAT:/* //STEP1 EXEC > PGM=IDCAMS,REGION=2048K,TIME=1440 //DD1 DD VOL=SER=MCAT03,UNIT=SYSA > LLDA,DISP=OLD// DD VOL=SER=TST001,UNIT=SYSALLDA,DISP=OLD//SYSPRINT > DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN DD * > REPRO - > INDATASET(TSUT3.MCAT) - > OUTDATASET(USERCAT.APPLIC) - > LEVEL(CTPRT17) - > MERGECAT - > FILE(DD1) > /* // > Thanks. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
