Tom Marchant wrote:
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:28:25 -0400, John Eells wrote:
Extended aliases (those defined with SYMBOLICRELATE) don't work well
(i.e., at all!) for entries in the master catalog. Did you mean data
set aliases?
Really? In what way do you mean? I used them for an ISV product a few
years ago and they seemed to work quite nicely.
I wasn't clear. I mean that if the *entry describing the data set* is
in the master catalog, SYMBOLICRELATE is probably not the tool you want
to use. ;-)
It's fine, of course, to have an *alias* defined with SYMBOLICRELATE in
the master catalog, pointing (once the symbol has been resolved) to a
user catalog where the *data set entry* lives. This works well,
particularly for product set catalogs that are used for subsystems or
other products that aren't in the z/OS product set.
--
John Eells
z/OS Technical Marketing
IBM Poughkeepsie
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