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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace zSecure
Categories zSecure Admin
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 29, 2024

z/Secure to only used required input files

When using z/Secure to look at admin functions, such as RA.U, if there are Access Monitor datasets allocated in the setup files, it'll allocate those even though they are not necessary.

The simple answer is to not have those selected, however if they were, they shouldn't be allocated when not needing that data.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Dec 5, 2024

    Thank you for advising, I'll share this with colleagues.

    Many thanks

  • Guest
    Nov 14, 2024

    A doc update has been scheduled to note the ALLOCATE POSTPONE operand also applies to input data sets like ACCESS

  • Guest
    Nov 5, 2024

    The feature you request already exists in the form of the POSTPONE keyword on the ALLOC statement ... but the manual is indeed not clear that the keyword also applies to most input data sets.