The Mainframe Pages: DDNames

I've assembling this list for the last five years or so, after tiring of reading syslogs and dumps and attempting to associate a product/module with DDnames. If I can ever get my fingers on a 3490, I'll be able to add some significant information to this list!

DDName

Vendor, product and file description

ABNLNODP

Abendaid

ABNLTERM

Abendaid

APPLFILE Cybermation ESP

BNJPNL1

IBM AO/Netview, hardware monitor panel/color map dataset

BNJPNL2

IBM AO/Netview, hardware monitor panel/color map dataset

BNJMISC

IBM AO/Netview

CEEDUMP

If not specified, allocated by LE during ABEND, assigned to SYSOUT=*

CKPT Cybermation ESP

CNMCMDF

IBM AO/Netview

CNMMSGF

IBM AO/Netview

CNMPLN1

IBM AO/Netview, Online help panels

COMMQ Cybermation ESP, agent communications info

DSICLD

IBM AO/Netview, CLIST and command libraries

DSIKPNL

IBM AO/Netview, central site control facility

DSILIST

IBM AO/Netview, (new) output list file

DSILOGP

IBM AO/Netview, primary log dataset

DSILOGS

IBM AO/Netview, secondary log dataset

DSIMSG

IBM AO/Netview, message reformat definitions

DSIOPEN

IBM AO/Netview, (new) NetView non-secured datasets

DSIPARM

IBM AO/Netview, startup parms and automsg libraries

DSIPRF

IBM AO/Netview, profile and security libraries

DSISVRT

IBM AO/Netview, save/restore facility VSAM data base

DSITRCP

IBM AO/Netview, primary trace log datasets

DSITRCS

IBM AO/Netview, secondary trace log datasets

DSIVTAM

IBM AO/Netview, VTAM definition library

DSNETBLS Used by DB2 under TSO
DSQDEBUG
DSQEDIT
DSQPRINT
EVENTSET Cybermation ESP, the database – can have multiples. ~350 events/cylinder
HISTFILE Cybermation ESP, history file, can be backed up automatically by ESP
INDEX Cybermation ESP, contains calendars & dataset triggers & passwords & global variable tables

INFILEA

Abendaid

INFILEB

Abendaid

INFILEC

Abendaid

ISPCTLn Temporary datasets allocated by ISPF/PDF
ISPLLIB Where ISPF/PDF looks for load modules
ISPLSTn Sysout datasets
ISPMALT Alternate message lib for DBCS support
ISPMLIB Message library accessed by ISPF/PDF
ISPPALT Alternate panel lib for DBCS support
ISPPLIB Panel definitions for ISPF/PDF
ISPPROF Profiles
ISPSALT Alternate skeleton lib
ISPSLIB Skeleton library
ISPSNAP dataset for TERMTRAC ON, ERROR, or DUMP commands
ISPTABL Table input library
ISPTLIB
JOBINDEX Cybermation ESP, has pointers to TRAKFILE and APPLFILE
ORA@wxyz Oracle Transparent Gateway - an indicator in an the TIOT of an address space that the request to the DB2 security exit DSN2@ATH is an Oracle gateway request.
QUEUE Cybermation ESP, 1 cyl is sufficient
RESDEF Cybermation ESP, resource definitions
TRAKFILE Cybermation ESP, short term job tracking data. 20cyls ~ 4k jobs. Max 500cyl
USERDEF Cybermation ESP, for internal security. If using SAF, can alloc as 1 track

PIMSMPP

IBM AO/Netview, local DDName required for interface support

SADSNAME IBI Focus, multiuser sink address space
SAFLNAME IBI Focus, multiuser sink address space

SIGNPFK

IBM AO/Netview, local DDName required for signon support

SIGNAUTH

IBM AO/Netview, local DDName required for signon support

SMCOLECT

IBI Focus, multiuser sink address space - (I may not have the right spelling)

SYSEXEC

REXX execs

SYSHELP Help members for TSO

SYSPROC

CLISTs

SYSTERM

TSO

SYSUADS

TSO


Last updated 04-08-13 23.11.29