On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:52:37 +0100, R.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Yes, it is. The limit depends on alias names length. The longer alias >names the smaller limit. >AFAIK it is absolutely unrelated to user catalog allocation. This is >master catalog entry capacity. However you can have more aliases in >other user catalog. >BTW: 2000+ aliases is a lot. One man's large is another man's ... If you consider larger shops that have gone though mergers and consolidations over the years (think how long MVS has been around already) and new naming standards over and over and over again plus many TSO users that all have an alias, 2000 is not so large. OTOH, I was at a shop where almost every data set started PROD.*. I bet they were happy when MLA (Multi Level Aliases) became available. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS 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
