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
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