47287 - Errors occur if you replace members of a UNIX file system library in SAS® 9.3 (TS1M1) on the z/OS operating system

Problem Note 47287: Errors occur if you replace members of a UNIX file system library in SAS® 9.3 (TS1M1) on the z/OS operating system

In the first maintenance release of SAS 9.3 (TS1M1) on the z/OS operating system, errors might occur if:

CHOWN.UNRESTRICTED is not defined in the Remote Access Control Facility (RACF) UNIXPRIV class,
you replace a SAS data set in a SAS library that is stored in UNIX file system space, and
the account under which you are running SAS is not a member of the group ID (GID) of the associated file.

The following error occurs in your SAS log:

ERROR: An I/O error has occurred on file xxxxxx.xxxxxx.xxxxxx.

You can avoid this problem by taking one of the following actions:

Run SAS under an account that is a member of the group associated with the file.
Request that a system administrator change the GID of the file.
Define a profile for CHOWN.UNRESTRICTED. You can define profiles in the UNIXPRIV class to grant RACF authorization for certain z/OS UNIX privileges. Resource names in the UNIXPRIV class are associated with z/OS UNIX privileges. The profile for CHOWN.UNRESTRICTED enables a user to change the GID of a file that the user owns to a GID for which the user account is not a member.

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.3_M1 is available at:

Replacing members of a UFS library requires that the RACF UNIXPRIV class have CHOWN.UNRESTRICTED. Otherwise, errors might occur.

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	medium

Date Modified:	2012-08-31 11:51:58
Date Created:	2012-08-22 15:14:26