I did not wish to deprecate the [appropriate] use of catalog aliases. Once, long ago, there was a configuration of the linkage editor called IEWL440 that operated very sedately but used little [then real], storage to do its job.
In one shop, call it S to protect the guilty, the applications programmers were very reluctant, perhaps for sentimental reasons, to give up using it long after any rationale for doing so had disappeared. Making IEWL440 an alias for a more storage-intensive and much more efficient version of the linkage editor resolved this problem without discommoding the these sentimental S applications programmers. This is a wholly appropriate use of catalog aliases. These uses are few but not for that reason unimportant. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
