z/OS V1R6.0 DFSMS Access Method Services for Catalogs

DEFINE PATHnamed in the PATHENTRY parameter. See “Catalog Selection Order forDEFINE” on page 11 for the order in which a catalog is selected if the catalog’sname is not specified.catnamespecifies the catalog’s name.If the catalog’s volume is physically mounted, it is dynamically allocated. Thevolume must be mounted as permanently resident or reserved.Abbreviation: CATMODEL(entryname[ catname])Specifies an existing path entry that is to be used as a model for the path beingdefined. You can use some attributes of the model and override others byexplicitly specifying them in the definition of the path. When you do not wantto add or change any attributes, you specify only the entry type (PATH), thepath’s name, its alternate index’s or cluster’s name, and the model entry’sname.See “Specifying Attribute Selection Order” on page 14 for more informationabout the order in which the system selects an attribute.entrynamenames the entry to be used as a model. The entryname must name a pathentry.catnamenames the model entry’s catalog.If the catalog’s volume is physically mounted, it is dynamically allocated.The volume must be mounted as permanently resident or reserved. See“Catalog Selection Order for DEFINE” on page 11 for information aboutthe order in which a catalog is selected when the catalog’s name is notspecified. Unless you have RACF authorization to the directed catalogfacility, you should not specify catalog names for SMS-managed data sets.For TSO users, if the owner is not identified with the OWNER parameter,the TSO user’s userid becomes the ownerid.OWNER(ownerid)specifies the identification of the path’s owner.RECATALOG|NORECATALOGspecifies whether a path entry is to be created for the first time or recataloged.RECATALOGspecifies that a path entry is to be recataloged. This requires that theNAME and PATHENTRY parameters be specified as they were when thepath was originally defined.If ATTEMPTS, AUTHORIZATION, CATALOG, CODE, FOR, MODEL,OWNER, TO, or UPDATE|NOUPDATE parameters were specified duringthe original define, they must be respecified with RECATALOG to restoretheir original values; otherwise, their default values are used.Abbreviations: RCTLGNORECATALOGspecifies that a new path entry is to be created in a catalog.Abbreviation: NRCTLG198 z/OS V1R6.0 DFSMS Access Method Services for Catalogs