On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:34:59 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >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?
I would suggest that, given the change for SYMBOLICRELATE, you do it using that. Define system symbol &FOOBAR to have a value of FOOBAR Define your alias with SYMBOLICRELATE to SYS1.&FOOBAR -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
