On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:25:48 +0530, mf db wrote: > >But I am not able to create and relate with same alias and I get a >duplicate dataset entry. Here the background is that I am trying to use >this alias in one of our proclibs. > If the alias has the same name as the related data set, it would seem that the alias is unnecessary.
>On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: > >> In 3.4 if you display the dataset and then PF11 - see if there are dataset >> attributes. If there is no space, no lrecl, no blksize, and so forth, then >> all you have is a catalog entry and that is it. You can create as many >> catalog entries as you like that do not have REAL datasets underneath them. >> But you can't create an alias unless the RELATEd DSN is catalogued. Unless you call it a SYMBOLIC alias, and you can't create a SYMBOLIC alias unless its name contains one or more actual symbols. Silly rule. On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:39:41 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >Aliases are most useful for PDS and PDSE members, and they are handled >very differently in the two. > And both are even more radically different from catalogued aliases of data set names. Hmmm... If a directory alias exists for a PDS (or PDSE) member, and I EDIT and SAVE that member, what's the subsequent condition of the alias? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
