On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 07:04:17 -0400, John Eells wrote:
>
>As the person who got the Catalog/VSAM team to create SYMBOLICRELATE
>some time ago, *I* certainly do not want it to go away, and I doubt very
>much that it will go away.
> ...
>That people found other uses for this function is a serendipitous byproduct.
>
At some point I opened an SR on an unexpected error when I used SYMBOLICRELATE.
Support replied that the problem was that I had no symbols in my alias. But
though z/OS 2.1, the IDCAMS Ref. says:
SYMBOLICRELATE(entryname)
Allows the specification of the base data set name using system
symbols. ...
"Allows" is permissive, not restrictive. I insisted that there was a bug
needing
repair.
Alas, in z/OS 2.3 IDCAMS Ref. I see:
SYMBOLICRELATE(entryname)
Requires the specification of the base data set name using system
symbols.
"Allows" became "Requires". All too characteristic of IBM to document a
deficiency
rather than repairing it.
Sigh,
gil
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
