Kevin, The physical limitation for the number of aliases related to a user catalog is determined by the maximum record length for the master catalog. The user catalog connector record contains the user catalog name, ownership cell information, a volume cell (including the volser and devicetype), and an association cell. The association cell contains a reference to each alias related to the user catalog.
As each new alias is defined relating to the user catalog, the variable length user catalog connector record grows by the length of the alias, one pad byte, one flag byte, and one length byte. For instance, adding a 3- character alias would cause six bytes to be added to the overall length of the user catalog connector record. If adding the next alias would cause the user catalog connector record to exceed 32,400 bytes, then the DEFINE ALIAS command will fail. The only way to relate additional aliases to the target user catalog is to delete unused aliases related to that user catalog. The other option is to relate the new alias to a different user catalog. Hope that helps... Tony Brown DINO Software Corporation http://www.dino-software.com/ 1-800-480-DINO (3466) 410-414-9244 (direct) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
