On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 06:25:01 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote: > >A VSAM PATH _can_ be the same as a non-VSAM ALIAS. However, it also can be >different. > >For keyed VSAM files, if you specify the PATHENTRY keyword when defining a >PATH, you can specify that the PATH should use an alternate index. At that >point, if you open the PATH instead of opening the CLUSTER you will have the >same data, but in a different order. > Couldn't that facility have been achieved without a separate command simply by supporting PATHENTRY as a keyword of DEFINE ALIAS?
Simpler is better. Or should be. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
