Option to detect if an alias of a user Catalog is not defined in MCAT

Products

• JCLCheck Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

Catalog aliases are defined in the master catalog, which contains an entry for the user catalog.

For example:

//DEFALIAS JOB ...
//STEP01   EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A
//SYSIN    DD *
       DEFINE ALIAS -
              (NAME(TEST01)     -
              RELATE(SYS1.ICFCAT.ABCD))
/*

 

TEST01 is the alias and SYS1.ICFCAT.ABCD is the catalog for which the alias is being defined.

 

Is JCLCHECK able to detect if an HLQ alias (TEST01 in this sample) is not defined in the Master Catalog?

 

Environment

Release : 12.0

Component : JCLCheck Workload Automation

Resolution

Use the SEC(CATLG)  option.

Using this option the following errors are produced:

*WARN*     CAY6321W  POTENTIAL SECURITY VIOLATION DETECTED  'DATASET, ACCESS LEVEL=CREATE' ACID = 'USER001'   
           CAY6490I  CHECKED RESOURCES: 'ABCD11', 'DATASET.TEST'                                             
           CAY6321W  POTENTIAL SECURITY VIOLATION DETECTED  'CATALOG, ACCESS LEVEL=UPDATE' ACID = 'USER001'   
           CAY6490I  CHECKED RESOURCES: 'DCBA1', 'ICF.MASTER.VDCBA1'                                        

These errors are because without an alias in the master catalog, the file would have to be added directly to the master.  But security says no updates are allowed to the master.