I would expect method 3 to search only the MCAT because there are no wildcard characters. Until you have wildcard characters in an alias position, there is no need to search other catalogs.
Don Williams -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Ip Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Question on VVDS creation (implicltly) Thanks Scott! In conclusion to my case: 1. Input 'SYS1.VVDS' under DSLIST, it searches only MCAT (no alias for SYS1) but not UCAT 2. Input '*.VVDS.Vxxxxxx' under DSLIST, it searches MCAT and ALL UCATs 3. Input 'SYS1.VVDS.Vxxxxxx' under DSLIST, I am not sure if it searches MCAT and ALL UCATs but it did show me the one entry of "Data Component" but no "Cluster Component" (when I use method no.2, it shows me 2 "Data Component" entries + 2 "Cluster Entries, it means the VVDS is marked under two UCATs) Do you think for method no.3, does it searches across ALL UCATs and why was the result like this? note: under DSLIST, both 'Include Additional Qualifiers' and 'Display Catalog Name' are checked Paul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
