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List:       racf-l
Subject:    Re: decent? "personal" data sets for non-TSO users.
From:       Elardus Engelbrecht <elardus.engelbrecht () SITA ! CO ! ZA>
Date:       2017-03-10 10:10:07
Message-ID: 3883369569602215.WA.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co.za () listserv ! uga ! edu
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John McKown wrote:

>I was thinking that the non-TSO interactive users could use data sets in=
 the form: MYDSN.&RACUID.** This should be easy to create a single set of=
 RACF rules for:

>RDEF GLOBAL DATASET('MYDSN.&RACUID.**'/ALTER)
>ADDSD 'MYDSN.*.**' UACC(NONE)
>PE 'MYDSN.*.**' ID(*) ACCESS(READ)

It depends whether the user can use it in that way. Is that for PDS, PDS-=
E or zHFS datasets?

>I thought that this would be OK for UNIX shell users, because in most ca=
ses, they should keep their data in a UNIX file in their ${HOME}. My opin=
ion is that a UNIX shell should should be more comfortable using shell fa=
cilities than trying to make the UNIX shell "work like" a TSO session. If=
 there is something that _requires_ a data set, then using MYDSN.&RACUID.=
**
(or the JCL version of MYDSN.&SYSUID.**) should not be too difficult. I w=
ould hope.

It could be a good idea. Please post your suggestion to IBM-MAIN or MVS-O=
E lists to hear what others are thinking.

>Am I totally off my rocker and out of my gourd?

No. Such starting of fires may actually be a good thing! ;-)

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht
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