I was not defending the no alias of an alias design, just commenting on it.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 7:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Dataset alias advice On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:35:08 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: > >> You can't have an alias of an alias > >I can see the analogy to PDSes. Only members can have aliases; aliases >can't have aliases, right? > Gee. No matter how bad something is, if you can find something equally bad or worse to compare it to, you can call it relatively good. I can't see any analogy to UNIX symbolic links, which can chain up to a system defined limit, easily exceeded, with no integrity harm: user@HOST: ln -s foo bar ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
