I'm a coder -- I barely know how to spell catalog -- but there are those of you on this list who have forgotten more about catalogs than I will ever know.
Here's the question. (And like all these things, there is a long story reason why doing things this way seems to make sense.) SYS1.FOOBAR is a dataset cataloged in the master catalog. It's not "real special" like SYS1.LINKLIB or anything. It's an SMP/E-managed IBM product library. I don't think it is APF-authorized. I think it is linklisted if that makes a difference. JOEBLOW is an ordinary userid. Is it possible to create a catalog entry such that JOEBLOW.MY.FOO.BAR is an alias for SYS1.FOOBAR and batch DD references to JOEBLOW.MY.FOO.BAR will actually allocate SYS1.FOOBAR? It seems to me it should be possible but people who know more about these things than I do tell me it is not possible. If it is possible, can you give me a couple of clues or pointers I could pass on to the relevant catalogers? Environment z/OS V2R1 if it matters. Thanks, Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
