On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:07:51 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
>
>In any case, unless both the alias and the data set name resolve to
>the same user catalog, the alias is worthless.
>
That is one of the dumber design decisions I have ever encountered.
Simply, alias resolution should search for the RELATED DSN in the
catalog corresponding to its HLQ where it is, not that of the alias.
Multi-level aliasing would be nice, too.
And why is an alias of a VSAM DSN called something else ("PATH",
IIRC) rather than simply ALIAS?
-- gil
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