Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-14 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Finding all aliases without specifying an pattern name seems like it should be >a basic wide-ranging need. I haven't done it for awhile, but I believe you can do it on a user catalogue basis. LISTCAT ENTRY(usercat) xxx Where xxx would be one of ASSOCIATIONS or ALL. Like I said, it's been a

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-14 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
In an IDCAMS batch job, not TSO, issue the command LISTCAT CAT(dsn) ALIAS ALL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roy Reynolds Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Dataset Aliases - How

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-14 Thread Burrell, C. Todd (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) (CTR)
, which might be better as a start. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 2:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them In an IDCAMS batch

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-14 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>LISTCAT CAT(dsn) ALIAS ALL I knew it could be done, I just couldn't remember how. - I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor motivation! Kimota! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to li

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-14 Thread Tom Marchant
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On >Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A >Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 2:33 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >Subject: Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them > >In an IDCAMS batch job, not TSO, issue t

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-14 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
(CDC/OCOO/ITSO) (CTR) Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them I would add that this command should be done against your MASTER catalog to get all aliases... This should show you all aliases along with their associated

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-14 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 12:54 -0500, Roy Reynolds wrote: > Such a basic question I can hardly believe I'm asking it. > > Is there a way to list all the dataset aliases and their target datasets? > Such an option would be useful. > I guess I could just go through listing all datasets and checking for

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-14 Thread Scott Rowe
es defined in user catalogs. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Burrell, C. Todd (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) (CTR) Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them I

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-14 Thread David Purdy
-Original Message- From: Tom Marchant >..Data set aliases are required to be defined in the same >catalog as the data set. I would swear that we had an applications manager STEPCAT during a dataset creation to a different catalog than where the alias was defined. Of course, finding

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-14 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:29:10 -0400, David Purdy wrote: >-Original Message- >From: Tom Marchant > >>..Data set aliases are required to be defined in the same >>catalog as the data set. > > > >I would swear that we had an applications manager STEPCAT >during a dataset creation to a diffe

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-14 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:27:38 -0400, Scott Rowe wrote: >I think Todd was thinking about catalog aliases, rather than dataset aliases. > Read the "Subject:" line. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instr

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-14 Thread Rick Fochtman
-- I would add that this command should be done against your MASTER catalog to get all aliases... This should show you all aliases along with their associated user catalogs. Depending on your system this can be a lengthy output.

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-15 Thread Scott Rowe
I'm well aware of the subject, but he may have missed it. >>> Paul Gilmartin 07/14/10 6:24 PM >>> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:27:38 -0400, Scott Rowe wrote: >I think Todd was thinking about catalog aliases, rather than dataset aliases. > Read the "Subject:" line. -- gil --

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-15 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:33:01 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: >On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:29:10 -0400, David Purdy wrote: > >>-Original Message- >>From: Tom Marchant >> >>>..Data set aliases are required to be defined in the same >>>catalog as the data set. >> >> >> >>I would swear that we had an

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-15 Thread John Eells
I am not sure what the OP meant by "data set alias," or whether we mean the same thing when using this term, so... There are two kinds of aliases. User catalog connector aliases are well-defined in the books, I think, but the "other kind," which I'll call "data set aliases" for now, are not s

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-15 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 07:53 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > > Change that to "was not allowed" because JOBCAT/STEPCAT is no longer > allowed period. They were disabled by default at z/OS 1.5 and the ability > to use them at all was removed in z/OS 1.7. Goodness IMHO (and please, > let's not start

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-15 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
"John McKown" wrote in message news:<1279200787.32235.223.ca...@mckown5.johnmckown.net>... > On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 07:53 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > > > > > Change that to "was not allowed" because JOBCAT/STEPCAT is no longer > > allowed period. They were disabled by default at z/OS 1.5 and the

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-15 Thread John P Kalinich
Subject:Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:00:29 -0500, John P Kalinich wrote: > >I think it should be... > >DEFINE - > ALIAS(NAME(other.name.you.want.to.use.for.the.data.set) - > RELATE(real.data.set.name)) - > CAT(same.catalog.as.for.real.data.set.name) > As I remember it also. And the effect of CAT(...) is f

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-15 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 7/15/2010 9:04:44 A.M. Central Daylight Time, jkali...@csc.com writes: I think it should be... >> Oh, why not just run Alistar's RCNVTCAT and get a ready made PDS that has all the ALIAS and UCATs? --

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-15 Thread John Eells
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 07/15/2010 08:25 AM Subject: Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them I am not sure what the OP meant by "data set alias," or whether we mean the same thing when using this term, so... There are two kinds of aliases

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-15 Thread Neil Duffee
FDR client? FDReport variable DSNALCNT. [snip] TITLE LINE=' : + Datasets having aliases defined' REPORT FIELD=(DSNALIAS, NAME,DSSN,DSNALCNT,RELALCNT) XSELECT DSNALCNT.GT.0 SORTFIELD=(INDEX,DSN),order by ... BREAK=(YES,NO)sub-t

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-15 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
FDR client is not enough. FDREPORT is a separate product, included only in an ABR licence (IIRC). Kees. "Neil Duffee" wrote in message news:<7a7b0f9e9f98e0479c437a87af8c7f82013dd...@msmail4.uottawa.o.univ>.. . > FDR client? FDReport variable DSNALCNT. > > [snip] > TITLE LINE=' : + >

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-16 Thread Stephen Mednick
. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Friday, 16 July 2010 4:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them FDR client is not enough. FDREPORT is a separate product

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-16 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
cussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf > Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM > Sent: Friday, 16 July 2010 4:55 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them > > FDR client is not eno

Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them

2010-07-16 Thread Stephen Mednick
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Friday, 16 July 2010 5:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Dataset Aliases - How to find ALL of them Is this free or bundled with which product? Kees. "Stephen Mednick&quo