Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IDCAMS ALIAS vs a symbolic link?

2022-03-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 13:14:49 -0500, Jay Maynard wrote: >The maximum length of a dataset name has been 44 characters since the very >earliest days of System/360. > You didn't read. I was asking not about "dataset" (ITYM "data set") names, but about symbolic alias strings. >On Tue, Mar 29, 2022

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IDCAMS ALIAS vs a symbolic link?

2022-03-29 Thread Pommier, Rex
[EXTERNAL] Re: IDCAMS ALIAS vs a symbolic link? The maximum length of a dataset name has been 44 characters since the very earliest days of System/360. On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 1:06 PM Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 17:4

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IDCAMS ALIAS vs a symbolic link?

2022-03-29 Thread Jay Maynard
The maximum length of a dataset name has been 44 characters since the very earliest days of System/360. On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 1:06 PM Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 17:48:20 +, Pommier, Rex wrote: > >... > >... The

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IDCAMS ALIAS vs a symbolic link?

2022-03-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 17:48:20 +, Pommier, Rex wrote: >... >... The symbolic string must not exceed 44 characters, including all name > segments and periods. > Thanks. I see it in: . I wonder why IBM chose

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IDCAMS ALIAS vs a symbolic link?

2022-03-29 Thread Pommier, Rex
cters, including all name segments and periods. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 12:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IDCAMS ALIAS vs a symbolic link? On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 22:

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IDCAMS ALIAS vs a symbolic link?

2022-03-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 22:39:12 +, Pommier, Rex wrote: >... > Just for fun I defined a symbolic called and IPLed my sandbox > resulting in (in part) this: > >IEA007I STATIC SYSTEM SYMBOL VALUES 045 > = "" > >I then defined a new SYM alias: > > DEF

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IDCAMS ALIAS vs a symbolic link?

2022-03-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 22:39:12 +, Pommier, Rex wrote: > >... Just for fun I defined a symbolic called and IPLed my sandbox > resulting in (in part) this: > >IEA007I STATIC SYSTEM SYMBOL VALUES 045 > = "" > >I then defined a new SYM alias: > > DEF

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IDCAMS ALIAS vs a symbolic link?

2022-03-28 Thread Pommier, Rex
ssage- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, March 28, 2022 1:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: IDCAMS ALIAS vs a symbolic link? On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 15:27:22 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >He's looking for an alias without the