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

DEFINE USERCATALOGafter a DELETE RECOVERY during catalog recovery operations. Locking acatalog makes it inaccessible to all users without read authority to RACFFACILITY class profile IGG.CATLOCK (including users sharing the catalogon other systems).UNLOCKSpecifies that the catalog identified by entryname is to be defined with thelock attribute off. This is the default if LOCK|UNLOCK is not specified.MANAGEMENTCLASS(class)For SMS-managed data sets: Specifies the name, 1-to-8 characters, of themanagement class. Your storage administrator defines the names of themanagement classes you can specify. If MANAGEMENTCLASS is notspecified, but STORAGECLASS is specified or defaulted,MANAGEMENTCLASS is derived from automatic class selection (ACS). IfMANAGEMENTCLASS is specified and SMS is inactive, DEFINE will beunsuccessful. MANAGEMENTCLASS cannot be specified as a subparameter ofDATA or INDEX.Abbreviation: MGMTCLASMODEL(entryname[ catname])Specifies that an existing master or user catalog is to be used as a model forthe user catalog being defined.When one entry is used as a model for another, its attributes are copied as thenew entry is defined. You can use some attributes of the model and overrideothers by explicitly specifying them in the definition of the user catalog.If a model is used, you must specify certain parameters even though noattributes are to be changed or added. The name of the user catalog to bedefined and volume and space information must always be specified asparameters of USERCATALOG. See “Specifying Attribute Selection Order” onpage 14 for information about the order in which the system selects anattribute.STORAGECLASS and MANAGEMENTCLASS classes can be modeled. IfDATACLASS exists for the entry being used as a model, it is ignored.entrynameSpecifies the name of the master or user catalog to be used as a model.catnamespecifies the name of the catalog to be used as a model. This parameter isrequired if the model catalog is neither the master catalog nor a catalogidentified by a JOBCAT or STEPCAT DD statement.Restriction: JOBCAT and STEPCAT DD statements are disabled, bydefault, during installation. If you use JOBCAT or STEPCAT DDstatements, see the information in “JCL JOBCAT and STEPCAT DDStatements” on page 4.OWNER(ownerid)Specifies the identification of the owner of the catalog being defined.RECORDSIZE(average maximum|4086 32400) Abbreviation: RECSZIf you specify record size it is ignored, and no error message gets issued.REPLICATE|NOREPLICATEREPLICATE|NOREPLICATE is no longer supported; if it is specified, it will beignored and no message will be issued.208 z/OS V1R6.0 DFSMS Access Method Services for Catalogs