Got it, I guess. As I put it "aliases are not system-wide -- they are intra-catalog aliases." An alias is an alternate name for a dataset *in the same catalog.*
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Monday, August 29, 2016 4:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Elementary dataset alias question OK, confusion in my own post. 'OSR21.SYS1.LINKLIB' is an alias in mcat pointing to maintenance ucat 'OSR21.SYS1.LINKLIB' is also an alias in maintenance ucat pointing to nvsam 'SYS1.LINKLIB' in the same ucat with volser R21MNT, i.e. not the IPL volume So the alias and true nvsam entries get resolved in the same catalog. In OP's case, 'SYS1.FOOBAR' is (must be?) in mcat, while the user-level alias is (must be?) the standard ucat for that HLQ. I don't think it can work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
