NOT UPDATEABLE error with Datacom DDUPDATE

Products

• Datacom
• Datacom/AD
• Datacom/DB

Issue/Introduction

While adding an entity via the Datacom Datadictionary program DDUPDATE , the following error was encountered below. 

FUNCTION = ADD ENTITY
            ENTITY-TYPE       = PERSON
            OCCURRENCE        = xxxx
            VERSION           = 001
            AUTHOR            = GENERATED
            CONTROLLER        = xxxx
            DESCRIPTION       = XXXXX, YYYYY
            ** ERROR BELOW **     NOT UPDATEABLE
            PASS-WORD         = *******
            USERID            = +++

Environment

z/OS

Datacom Datadictionary 

Cause

User that logged on to Datadictionary has no security administrator rights.

Resolution

To check if the user signing on to Datadictionary has security administrator rights when Datadictionary is not externally secured in the Datacom Multi-User facility (MUF), run DDUTILTY with the following SYSIN cards:

-USR DATACOM-INSTALL,NEWUSER        
-DEF PATH,STANDARD  
-END 
-RPT RELAT,AUTHORIZATION,$DD-SEC-ADM(PROD,PRIV) 
-END

If the user is not listed in the report it means that the user does not have security administrator rights.

To add security administrator rights to the user,  run DDUPDATE with the following transactions:

-USR DATACOM-INSTALL,NEWUSER        
-UPD PERSON,userid(PROD,DD)  
1010 ADD $DD-SEC-ADM 
-END

If external security for Datadictionary has been activated in the Datacom MUF, the security team needs to give DTADMIN resource class access to the user for cxxname.DD .

See DTADMIN Resource Class