He's looking for an alias without the restriction of being in the same catalog. That would be useful for people who haven't set things up to exploit SYMBOLICRELATE, but I doubt that IBM will be willing to do it.
________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, March 28, 2022 11:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IDCAMS ALIAS vs a symbolic link? On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:36:42 -0400, Rob Schramm wrote: >I wasn't actually talking about using a symbol (as in system symbol)... but >referring to the unix command create symbolic link. >ln -s [OPTIONS] FILE LINK > ... >I am much more interested in the underlying functionality and >creating something useful for helping sysprogs and other manage catalogs. > What, in more detail, is the function you want? -- 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
