On Mon, 30 Apr 2018 11:59:18 -0500, John McKown wrote: >> >> Are the A and B HLQs aliased to the same catalogue? >> >> The alias will be in the catalogue for A, and if DSN lookups for B.* >> don't go to the same catalogue then the lookup for your alias will not >> be found. >> >RCF time, I guess. I tested and you are correct (of course). But the >manual does not say anything about the ALIAS name being required to be in >the same catalog as the base name. > This has been discussed here so often that even I know it. So I'm astonished that it's not documented.
But which manual should describe it? It should have cross-references from all relavant others. There ought to be an RFE tnat when the lookup fails in B's catalog the search should be re-driven from A's catalog. And the rule for SYMOLIC aliases is different. The behavior of SYMBOLIC aliases is so usefully different that there ought to be an RFE that a SYMBOLIC alias could be defined that doesn't contain an actual substitutable symbol. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
