RECON access authority

You can set three levels of access control for DBRC. Each level provides different permissions to users that access the RECON data sets.

DBRC allows three levels of access control:

• Users who delete and define information in the RECON data sets require ALTER authority.
• Users who only update the RECON data sets require UPDATE authority.
• Users who do not update the RECON data sets, but who want to query information from the RECON data sets, require READ authority.

The READONLY keyword for the DBRC Start API request (STARTDBRC) allows a user to specify a READONLY option. READONLY is also a JCL EXEC PARM on the Database Recovery Control utility (DSPURX00). READONLY specifies that the job is not allowed to make any updates to the RECON data sets. READONLY is necessary if the user submitting the job does not have UPDATE (or higher) authority for the data sets. When READONLY is specified, there is no recovery action taken when an error occurs on a RECON data set. Instead of swapping in a spare data set, the job is terminated.