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How You Use EDIF to Determine Authorized Programs

If you do not specify the AUTHORIZED parameter, then EDIF decides which programs should update a data set by examining the UTILITY statements you have provided. EDIF compares the record format and data set organization values on each UTILITY statement with the values in the DSCB of the data set. If these values match, then EDIF lets any program named on that UTILITY statement update that data set.

For example, suppose that you specified the following statements in the EDIPARMS member:

DATASET NAME=SYS1.LINKLIB OPTION(UTILITY,ABEND)

UTILITY NAME=LOADLIB PROGRAMS=(IEWLF128,ISRUDA,IEBCOPY),
    RECFM=UNDEFINED DSORG=PARTITIONED

Because the SYS1.LINKLIB data set has a record format value of UNDEFINED and a data set organization value of PARTITIONED, EDIF lets any of the programs named on this UTILITY statement update the SYS1.LINKLIB data set.