On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:54:52 -0600, Tom Marchant <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:25:34 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >>Can LINKLIST contain aliases? > >IIRC (but I may not remember correctly) SETPROG ADD can specify an >alias. However, > >From MVS Init & Tuning, on SETPROG LNKLST: DSNAME(dsname) The 44-character name of a data set or library that you want to add to the specified LNKLST set or delete from the specified LNKLST set. DSN, LIB, LIBRARY are accepted synonyms for this parameter. The data set can be a PDS or a PDSE. (IBM suggests that you use PDSEs because of the limitations on the number of extents for a LNKLST concatenation. See "Concatenating data sets to the LNKLST concatenation" in topic 74.4.4.) For the LNKLST created at IPL, the dsname cannot be an alias. So, NO, as of z/OS 1.12, ALIAS entries are not allowed. Static System Symbols, however are allowed. Which prompts me to mention that IBM and vendors do not only suggest/recommend/require datasets be in the LinkList FSVO "performance", or due to a lack of support or understanding of ISPLLIB/dynamic STEPLIB, or because it's "cool" (or "chic"). It is also a reasonable means to maintain target/execution libraries by VR/M and/or Maintenance level *and* insulate applications and users from dataset name changes. [...] Regards, Art Gutowski Compuware Corporation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
