On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 08:16:19 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > >Even though I wrote the alias relationship backwards, I thought I did when >I indicated "COMMANDS" is the member help looks at. Gilbert needed >to update COMMANDS, not IKJEFH90 - which I'm sure he figured out. > Indeed, I was headed in the wrong direction. I was unaware of the instruction to update the COMMANDS member manually, and imagined that Gilbert wanted to be able to display the information automatically, as from the content of a directory listing.
It should still be possible to build COMMANDS automatically, as by extracting specially formatted lines from the various members. Alas, this was apparently not planned for. >Of course using ISPF edit will destroy the MALIAS, ... > Does this get any better with PDSE? I'm viewing this from the point of view of UNIX filesystems, where it is possible to update a member and preserve either directory links or symbolic links; in the first case because the member can be overwritten and the inode (corresponds to directory entry) is updated, not replaced; in the latter case because symbolic links refer to the member by name, not by TTR. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
