Re: SMPE query - ALIAS/MALIAS

2021-06-03 Thread Kurt Quackenbush
On 6/2/2021 10:43 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: Ops. My mistake - they are aliases. I forgot how ISPF shows them. As a side point, why does the RELFILE need the alias? Can't the apply process assign them? Why? That's just the way APPLY works. I don't know what the original design point was

Re: SMPE query - ALIAS/MALIAS

2021-06-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 17:43:10 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote: >... >As a side point, why does the RELFILE need the alias? Can't the apply process >assign them? > I believe Kurt is saying that IEBCOPY doesn't assign aliases. OTOH, I was dismayed long ago when I tried such as: //SYSLIN DD *

Re: SMPE query - ALIAS/MALIAS

2021-06-02 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Ops. My mistake - they are aliases. I forgot how ISPF shows them. As a side point, why does the RELFILE need the alias? Can't the apply process assign them? On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 10:04:12 -0400 Kurt Quackenbush wrote: :>On 6/2/2021 8:57 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: :>> I have inherited a

Re: SMPE query - ALIAS/MALIAS

2021-06-02 Thread Kurt Quackenbush
On 6/2/2021 8:57 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: I have inherited a product with MCS with ALIAS/MALIAS. It appears that the RECEIVE process requires the alias to be in the RELFILE, and that the APPLY process creates true members instead of aliases. Am I missing something obvious in the packaging?

SMPE query - ALIAS/MALIAS

2021-06-02 Thread Binyamin Dissen
I have inherited a product with MCS with ALIAS/MALIAS. It appears that the RECEIVE process requires the alias to be in the RELFILE, and that the APPLY process creates true members instead of aliases. Am I missing something obvious in the packaging? -- Binyamin Dissen