Thanks. Makes sense. I find the DFSMS bookshelf to be about the most unintuitive of the lot. (How can anyone in their right mind create a "permanent" reference manual with the incredibly unhelpful name of "Using the New Functions"?)
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Peterson Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 11:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Dumb question on DEFINE ALIAS On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:45:24 -0700, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: >What is the reason for defining a catalog alias? I think I understand the >technical effect but I don't understand the big picture purpose. > I would suggest Managing Catalogs as a good introduction to the "big picture" for catalogs in a z/OS environment. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dgt2c170.pdf Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
