DC601059 errors in IDD against a particular application dictionary

Products

• IDMS
• IDMS - Database

Issue/Introduction

Any command issued in IDD or an IDMSDDDL batch job against one dictionary is getting the following errors:

*+ E DC601059  VALID USER NAME WAS NOT SPECIFIED
*+   DC601058  SIGNON REJECTED
*+ W DC601069  FORWARD SPACING UNTIL VALID SIGNON FOUND

Environment

Release: All supported releases.

Cause

Every IDMS dictionary has options that can be displayed or set by a USER that is defined in that dictionary with AUTHORITY FOR UPDATE IS ( ALL ).

Certain of the options control internal dictionary security controlled by the IDD/DDDL compiler.

In this case the dictionary had the following options set:

    SECURITY FOR IDD IS ON
    SECURITY FOR IDD SIGNON IS ON 

The user who was signed on to the IDMS CV or who submitted the IDMSDDDL batch job was not defined as a USER in this dictionary.

The compiler will attempt to automatically signon to the dictionary using the USERID of the signed-on user or the submitter of the batch IDMSDDDL job.

The USER in question was not defined to the dictionary so no commands were permitted.

Resolution

A USER defined in the dictionary with AUTHORITY FOR UPDATE IS ( ALL ) (typically this is the application DBA) must define the missing USER and define it with all AUTHORITY the USER should have to do the tasks assigned.

Alternately the DBA could also change the dictionary options to turn off these securities for a certain period to get the task completed, but assuming these options are intentionally set ON, adding the missing USER is the better solution.

Additional Information

IDD DDDL Reference