Permissions in Z/OS 2

You need to be a bit more specific.  

Exactly what do you want to do?  In the other question you wanted to allow either everybody or a specific person access to a specific file.

I need to set permissions for a specific person to access a specific file.

If you have a specific password then you can issue the command:

PERMIT 'DATA.SET.NAME' ID(userid) ACCESS(READ)

where DATA.SET.NAME is the full file name, userid is the userid of who you want to give access to and "READ" is what you want to allow them to do.

If you want to give them write  access, then replace READ with WRITE.

Ops not WRITE, but UPDATE if you want them to be able to write to the file.

I got:

ICH06004I IBM0428.RACF.READ NOT DEFINED TO RACF

Is IBM0428.RACF.READ the name of the file you want to  allow somebody else to read?

You may want to see how this dataset might be protected.

Try issuing the following command:

     listdsd dataset('IBM0438.*')

and post the response.

Response: ICH35003I NO RACF DESCRIPTION FOUND FOR IBM0438.*

Yes, IBM0428.RACF.READ is the dataset I'm working with. the user id being worked with is ZUSERID.

O.K, that means there is no RACF profile for IBM0438 yet.

Try:

     ADDDS IBM0428.* UACC(????) GENERIC

Where ????? is what you want the default access to all files that start with the HLQ of IBM0428.  Then try the permit command.

The ADDDS adds a generic data set profile.

I don't have "ADDDS;" I recieved

"IKJ56500I COMMAND ADDDS NOT FOUND"

Ops, should be ADDSD

I used that, and used permit, and the permit command didn't work.

I used: PERMIT 'ibm0428.racf.read' ID(ZUSERID) ACCESS(read).

Did you do it AFTER you did the ADDSD?

Yes. I just made sure, and tried to get the input in in a correct way.

Did the ADDSD command work?

Yes.

Does the data set ibm0428.racf.read actually exist?

Thank you for your help.