It's totally logical to distinguish from "Using the Old Functions". And then the rarely found manual "Using the Old Functions That We Play Hide and Seek with to make the Life More Interesting".
Regards, Thomas Berg _________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist A M SWEDBANK > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] För > Charles Mills > Skickat: den 9 juli 2010 21:17 > Till: [email protected] > Ämne: Re: Dumb question on DEFINE ALIAS > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
