Record type 66 (X'42') — Integrated Catalog Facility Alter Activity

Record type 66 is written during any processing that results in an ALTER request to Catalog Management Services, such as:

IDCAMS: ALTER

One type 66 record is written for each record written or deleted from a catalog.

Record type 66 identifies the entry being altered and the catalog in which the catalog record is written or deleted, and gives the new, updated, or deleted catalog record. It indicates if the entry was renamed (function indicator = ‘R’) and, if so, gives the old and new names of the entry. It identifies the job by job log identification and user identification. The job name, time, and date that the reader recognized the JOB card (for this job) constitutes the job log identification. If a system task caused the record to be written, the job name and user identification fields contain blanks and the time and date fields contain zeros.

Macro to Symbolically Address Record Type 66: The SMF record mapping macro for record types 36, 60, 61, 65 and 66 is IFASMFI6. The syntax is as follows:

IFASMFI6 nn

nn: identifies the type of the record you want to map. The mapping macro resides in SYS1.MACLIB.