>And for the sake of additional, but unasked for documentation. If you want to >use any system symbol you happen to have defined you would use the following >syntax:
>ln -s '$SYSSYMA/&yoursymbol./xxx' xxx >&SYSSYMA is a special keyword for a symbolic absolute pathname >&SYSSYMR is a special keyword for a symbolic relative pathname $SYSSYMA and $SYSSYMR ($ instead of &) would be correct. And to again complete the documentation: $SYSNAME is a special value that is recognized when found at the start of a symbolic link, and it resolves to the currents system *provided that* z/OS UNIX is configured with SYSPLEX(YES) in BPXPRMxx. With SYSPLEX(NO) it is resolved to "SYSTEM". In my reply, I didn't think of the possibility that the system was running with SYSPLEX(NO). $SYSNAME is not the same as &SYSNAME. The latter is a system symbols and would need either $SYSSYMA or $SYSSYMR to indicate that the next directory level in the path specified is a system symbol. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
