RTFM...

Al Staller | Z Systems Programmer | KBM Group | (Tel) 972 664-3565 | 
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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

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