FWIW (a) I wrote this thing in 1988 just for my use. But I gave out copies of it to anyone who wanted it. (b) All it does is update the PDS directory to contain alias pointers to whatever member is to be aliased. Hence any DSN RECFM/BLKSIZE is irrelevant. (c) Reporting invalid SYSIN cards is easily done by replicating its WRITEREC macro - calling it, say, WRITERR - and then updating WRITERR to write the invalid SYSIN card to DDNAME=REPORTS + updating the source code to invoke WRITERR etc. I did not bother with this, because invalid SYSIN cards can be deduced from their not being in the valid cards' report. (d) AFAIK I always used LKED and SYSLIN cards to alias LMODs, as that was the quickest way to do it at the time. I have no direct access to a mainframe (other than a P/390 that takes 40 mins to IPL) and cannot verify whether PGM=ALIASPDS would alias LMODs. I would expect it to, but without verification. (e) Yes, alias names can be any characters (except spaces) and do not have to be printable characters - same as SVC LMOD names. HTH. Cheers, Chris Poncelet (r)
On 01/07/2021 13:28, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 05:38:48 +0100, CM Poncelet wrote: > >> FWIW Try using this (attached) - HTH - Chris Poncelet (retired sysprog) >> > Where I read: >> * MEMBERS MAY HAVE FIXED OR VARIABLE LOGICAL RECORD LENGTH (FB OR VB). >> > Would anyone really expect that to matter? > Are only blocked records supported? > Then, what LRECL values are supported? > (FB and VB are not values of "LOGICAL RECORD LENGTH", but of Record Format.) > > More interesting, what DSNTYPEs are supported? > > Are the member/alias names treated as case-sensitive or insensitive? > Must alias names consist of printable characters? > > What errors are detected/reported? > >> * INVALID SYSIN CARDS ARE IGNORED. > Ouch! > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > . > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
