All, Who is to say you can't have a alias DATASET name pointing to the real name like this:
Index: /user/my/data -> user.my.data Of course index would need vol=ser or some how point to a catalog ... JCL would also have to change to accept the naming convention used.. Just my $.02 worth Regards, Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Nov 26, 2013, at 5:07 PM, Gerhard Postpischil <gerh...@valley.net> wrote: > > On 11/26/2013 4:42 PM, Ze'ev Atlas wrote: >>> how do you distinguish /u/myid/somefile.txt from >> /u/yourid/somefile.txt? Would the catalog have both entries? If so, then if >> you reference "the file" via this catalog, which file do you actually >> access? > > In z/OS and precursors, you need to know the full file name, unless you have > some software assistance (e.g., TSO and Wylbur will prepend an unquoted file > name with a user specified prefix, or the user id. This isn't too different > from the *nix case. > > Gerhard Postpischil > Bradford, Vermont > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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