Finding Aliases? Symbolic Aliases?

2005-11-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
We have some data sets that are so heavily enqueued SHR as STEPLIBs that we never have an opportunity to compress them. PDSE is not an option because they are shared beyond sysplex boundaries. I'm considering, as an alternative to compress, a tactic of copy/rename/ DEFINE ALIAS. This should larg

Finding Aliases? Symbolic Aliases?

2005-11-08 Thread Peter Pfaffner
Nobody answered so I'll jump in: Gil wrote: I'm considering, as an alternative to compress, a tactic of copy/rename/ DEFINE ALIAS. ... Experiment shows that when I do the rename; create new version; DEFINE ALIAS; their aliases continue to refer to the obsolete content by its new name rather tha

Re: Finding Aliases? Symbolic Aliases?

2005-11-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Peter Pfaffner said: > Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 22:14:18 +0100 > > >Is there any way to stabilize the alias > Sort of if you use DEFINE ALIAS SYMBOLICRELATE because these aliases are not > directly tied to a basic dataset, just to a name. > Define system symbols for each d

Re: Finding Aliases? Symbolic Aliases?

2005-11-21 Thread Mark Thomen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > But I tried this. Since my data set names will be the same in all LPARs, > and the IDCAMS RM says, "Allows [not Requires] ... using system symbols," > I saw no need to incorporate a variable part, > > I get: > > IDCAMS SYSTEM