As well as the dataset alias you also need a HLQ alias pointing to the same usercat, for this to work all the entries in question need to point to the same user cat, I also find it best to always specify the CAT parm when creating these definitions.
ISPF uses different catalog search processing (non standard), which is why you can see it in ISPF but batch job cannot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN