RTFM... Al Staller | Z Systems Programmer | KBM Group | (Tel) 972 664-3565 | [email protected]
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 11:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Aliases (was: z/OS 2.2 announcement) On 2015-07-29, at 15:59, Staller, Allan wrote: > PATH does not equal ALIAS in VSAM... > How are they different? In my experience they're just commands with different names that do the same thing. > <snip> > BTW, is there any good reason that an alias for a non-VSAM data set is called > an ALIAS while an alias for a VSAM data set is called a PATH? > (Might some object have both, in which case the distinction is > meaningful?) </snip> -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
