Keywords › MCSALTG Keyword—Alternate Recovery Group

MCSALTG Keyword—Alternate Recovery Group

Valid on z/OS.

Use the MCSALTG keyword to assign an alternate group used in recovery. The IBM equivalent to this field is ALTG.

This keyword has the following format:

TSS ADDTO(acid) MCSALTG(groupname)

Capacity of list

One group per ACID

groupname length

One to eight characters

This keyword is used with:

• The commands REPLACE, ADDTO, REMOVE, and WHOHAS
• The ACID types User, DCA, VCA, ZCA, LSCA, SCA, and MSCA
• MISC8(MCS) and ACID(MAINTAIN) authority

Important! All MCS resources must be added to a User Record and cannot be added to a Profile or to the ALL Record.

Examples: MCSALTG keyword

This example adds an alternate group name of X to ACID USERA:

TSS ADDTO(USERA) MCSALTG(X)

This example removes an alternate group name of X from USERA:

TSS REMOVE(USERA) MCSALTG(X)