In 3.4 if you display the dataset and then PF11 - see if there are dataset attributes. If there is no space, no lrecl, no blksize, and so forth, then all you have is a catalog entry and that is it. You can create as many catalog entries as you like that do not have REAL datasets underneath them.
Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of mf db Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 7:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Deleting Alias Elardus, I tried viewing via ISMF and I could see the alias entry pointing the same usercatalog, but when I type Browse agains the alias I get a message as "Dataset not catalogued" On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com>wrote: > On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 07:17:27 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: > > > >DEF TED.MY.FILE ALIAS RELATE(BOB.MY.FILE) then both BOB hlq and TED > >hlq must be in MYUCAT1 > > > You can control which catalog the TED alias is created in, but if the > catalogs are different you lose either way. If you create TED in > BOB's catalog, catalog search fails to find TED; if you create TED in > its proper catalog, catalog search fails to find BOB. > > >I may have that backwards, but it is close. Bottom line, the example > >IBM has in the book for doing this is very bad. I will be opening a > >request > for > >updating that to a more reasonable example. ... > > > Rather, that should be a Requirement that it be done right, not a RCF > for documentation that it is done wrong. > > > ... Second, from the document it > >appears that the HLQs should be in the same UCAT. At least that is > >my understanding from reading the IBM doc (which is very nebulous at best). > >And I do not believe that you are required to use the CAT parameter > >in the DEF ... ALIAS RELATE(....) function > > -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
