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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories RACF
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 22, 2018

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Program control and system symbols

Hello

Our colleagues make intensive use of system symbols when they install new software
or do some maintenance. They can use it also for APF libraries and so on.

Now we are struggling when we want make use of system symbols for program controlled libraries.
I get the follwing error messages:

RALTER PROGRAM ** ADDMEM('SOFT.CICS.&YCICTSP..SDFHEXCI'//NOPADCHK)
IKJ56702I INVALID MEMBER NAME, 'SOFT.CICS.&YCICTSP..SDFHEXCI'//NOPADCHK
IKJ56701I MISSING MEMBER RESOURCE NAME+
IKJ56701I MISSING NAME OF RESOURCE TO BE ADDED

Is there a way of make use of system symbols for program controlled libraries?

--> After posting this in RACF-L community I get encouraged by Bruce R. Wells to open a RFE:

https://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=RACF-L;60290627.1803

Now I hope you can enhance RACF to be able for accepting system symbols.

Many thanks in advance.
Daniel

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 7, 2023
    This item is a valid requirement but unlikely to be given high enough priority to be placed into the product plan. If this requirement is high value, please re-open it, or open a new requirement.
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 23, 2018

    Thank you for your response. We agree to this requirement as an uncommitted candidate.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 8, 2018

    Hello

    thank you for the consideration with the use of RACFVARS.

    But the disadvantage of RACFVARS for your case would be:
    "The resource names can be up to 39 characters long and cannot contain any generic characters."
    (Source: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.icha700/defrvar.htm)

    In that case we would have to add for every maintenance level a new member in the member class of RACFVARS. That generates the similar administration effort like add/del a dataset name in PROGRAM class. (An advantage of RACFVARS would be that multiple qualifiers can be used in parallel. But this is not required in our case). The benefit of this RFE would be that we could make use of system symbols and no additional RACF admin efford is required. The system administrator can decide which is the current system symbols (incl. fallback) and the correct dataset qualifier
    is automatically program controlled.
    PS: Our colleagues use an internal maintenance level pattern that identifies the appropriate maintenance level. This is reflected then in system symbols qualifier.

    Thank you very much.
    Daniel

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 30, 2018

    Thank you for submitting this request. It is under consideration. We wonder if you would prefer to use RACFVARS, though currently not supported in member lists like for PROGRAM.
    See https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.icha700/icha700_Using_a_RACF_variable_as_a_qualifier.htm
    The advantage of RACFVARS would be that multiple values could be substituted for the variable.

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