OPSBCPII needs access to parmlib datasets

Products

• Common Services
• OPS/MVS Event Management & Automation

Issue/Introduction

When trying to start the OPSBCPII task of CA OPS/MVS, it is asking for access to a PARMLIB dataset:

ICH408I USER(OPSBCPII) GROUP(STARTASK) NAME(STARTED TASK USERID)
  SYS1.PARMLIB CL(DATASET ) VOL(VOL1)
  INSUFFICIENT ACCESS AUTHORITY
  FROM SYS1.PARMLIB (G)
  ACCESS INTENT(READ   )  ACCESS ALLOWED(NONE   )

Why is there this request and how to solve this without allowing read access to the stc.

Environment

Release: 15.0 - COMMON SERVICES FOR Z/OS
Release: 14.0 - OPS/MVS 

Cause

During its initialization, the CCS Common Address space shell (The infrastructure used by OPSBCPII) attempts to locate its default parameters (CASVPARM) in the system logical parmlib concatenation. So any product exploiting the Address Space shell will need read access to these datasets. 

Resolution

Update the OPSBCPII JCL to include a CASVPARM DD and it will look there instead of logical parmlib.

The code is just looking for it in case one was defined.  If it does not find it, it continues without any indication of a problem or error. The CASVPARM DD just has to point to a valid PDS.