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TSO Logon Procedures and RACF
SYS1.UADS is the default dataset listing users that are allowed to use TSO/E [1]. Most sites that have RACF or other security products installed use those products to maintain their TSO/E logon information [2]. For a first time installation of RACF, IBM provides a command called RACONVRT to move users from SYS1.UADS to the RACF…
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Purging the JES spool in SDSF
Many mainframe beginners will be familiar with how to manually purge job outputs from the JES spool one by one – that is, accessing the job status log via SDSF;ST and placing a P against the job entry to be purged. But there are ways we can purge multiple jobs without having to manually enter…