I am in the process of building JCL to distribute resources across several images. I've been leveraging 'SYMBOLS=' in JCL to assist in that capacity. I've now come to a point where some conditional processing takes place, and I am using IDCAMS IF-THEN logic to determine whether to ALTER - NEWNAME and ALIAS - RELATE data set names to relieve GRS contention in certain situations. The NEWNAME contains a system symbolic, which sparked the memory of previously using SYMBOLICRELATE when it came to strategically relating ALIAS entries.
Which lead me to wonder - will SYMBOLICRELATE functionality eventually go away due to redundancy with the more flexible IAZSYMBL JES symbol service being available? Have folks switched their methods/practices? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
