RE: Authority needed by command...

Write DSPJRN on a command line, press F1 and read on, you will save a
lot of
trees :-) .

I didn't realize that my practice of browsing the web was endangering trees.
I'll try to be more careful in the future.

Seriously, using help has the advantage of showing the
latest
info on the command (or at least the one that applies to the release
you are
using).

Yes. And if you had tried this you would have seen that the answer to the
question is not there. You'd have discovered this after paging through
about 200 pages of "help" not related to the issue, and without search
ability. (Don't tell me about F14=Print help or I'll complain that *you*
are destroying trees. ;) )

In the case of the msgid CPF9802, it explains that you need
authorization on the object you are referring to...

True. It said that the user did not have the needed authority to journal
<lib>/<jrn>. This was not true. What was true, was that the DSPJRN was
done with (default) FILE(*ALLFILE) specified, and the user did not have
authority to one of the files associated with the journal. We solved it by
asking the user to request entries only for the file that was interesting at
the moment.


Dennis Lovelady
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dennislovelady
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"There is only one thing that can keep growing without nourishment: the
human ego."
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