On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 08:16:59 -0500, McKown, John wrote: >Thanks for the feedback. I most likely will not succeed, but I'm going to try >to write up a justification for using ALIASes, both "normal" and with >SYMBOLICRELATE. I have other things relating to our two system basic, not >parallel, sysplex that I want to do (which I'm too embarrased to mention) >which likely won't fly either. > I once wanted to use SYMBOLICRELATE solely because symbolic aliases persist even when the related data sets are deleted. I was dismayed, actually irritated, that SYMBOLICRELATE requires that the related name contain at least one one substitutable symbol. Silly A-R rule. And anyway, the doc says "may contain", not "must contain", which seems to imply that substitutable symbols should be optional.
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