You can look forward to being neither surprised nor delighted. From Managing Catalogs, SC23-6853-02, page 19:
"The symbolic string must not exceed 44 characters, including all name segments and periods." Ant. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2016 10:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Elementary dataset alias question Does that restrict the length of related DSNs to 39 characters rather than 44 because a 5-character name is replaced by a 0-character value? Of course a thoughtful design would allow the SYMBOLICRELATEd DSN to be comfortably longer then 44 characters because symbol resolution may reduce that length. Somehow I don't trust IBM designers to have been so thoughtful. For example, ISPF DSLIST restricts the name entered to be at most 44 characters regardless. I'd be delighted to be surprised. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
