On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:09:19 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I know, this has been belabored tediously here, but this may be a new >wrinkle. I believe: > >o Symbolic aliases in catalogs are resolved by substituting values > of system symbols for their names. > >o System symbols are not available to batch JCL. > >o So, may I conclude that symbolic DSNAME aliases must not be employed > in batch JCL? > Are you referring to SYMBOLICRELATE? If so, the alias can be used in batch JCL (the symbol is not used in the JCL). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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

