> Why do you want to do this? The JCL for a zillion jobs is essentially fixed and unchangeable without disrupting other things.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2016 8:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Elementary dataset alias question On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:09:45 -0400, John Eells wrote: >define nonvsam(name('sys1.deleteme.test') volumes(d83xl2) devt(3390)) >catalog('CATALOG.SVPLEX4.USERCAT') <== This one adds the entry to the >user catalog my user ID's alias points to. > >define alias(name('eells.deleteme.test') relate('sys1.deleteme.test')) >catalog('CATALOG.SVPLEX4.USERCAT') <== This one creates the data set alias. A word of caution. If the real data set is subject to moving to a different volume, for example because of HSM migrate/recall, the second catalog entry will not be updated when it is recalled. And of course, if the data set is on the IPL volume, you would catalog it to ****** or the appropriate symbol. >Charles Mills wrote: >> >> Here's the question. (And like all these things, there is a long >> story reason why doing things this way seems to make sense.) I'm curious. Why do you want to do this? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
