I recommend that you use the real dataset name not the alias name in the LINKLIST and use the symbolic alias to isolate the required JCL changes if the dataset is required in any JCL. Since the dataset is in the LINKLIST then you should not need to specify the dataset in any JCL.
Regards Otto Schumacher HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS & Capacity Technical Support Ahold Building 1200 Brookfiled Blvd. 2S-034 Greenville, South Carolina, 29607 Cell: 864 569--5338 Tel: 864 987-1417 Fax: provide upon request E-mail: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Art Gutowski Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PDSE On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:11:49 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]> wrote: >In <[email protected]>, on >01/23/2012 > at 04:14 PM, Art Gutowski <[email protected]> said: >>On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:54:52 -0600, Tom Marchant <[email protected]> >>wrote: >>>On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:25:34 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >>>Can LINKLIST contain aliases? > >>IIRC (but I may not remember correctly) SETPROG ADD can specify an >>alias. However, [...] > >>So, NO, as of z/OS 1.12, ALIAS entries are not allowed. > >ITYM are not allowed at IPL time. Tom...hand me a towel, so I can wipe this egg off my face... Thanks for setting me straight - LNKLST cannot, PROGxx LNKLST ADD can. Since APF is another story: 74.1.1 Defining aliases in the APF list Do not define aliases in the APF list because IBM's data management services (for example, OPEN processing) map an alias to its actual library name and query the APF list by the actual library name. An alias in the APF list does not authorize anything. ...for consistency, I would use DSN with a symbolic qualifier, or volume, unless LNKAUTH=LNKLST, then it doesn't matter. Just out of idle curiosity, I looked and found no documented restriction for aliases in LPALSTxx...do I take that to mean dataset aliases are supported? (Never thought to try it.) Regards, Art Gutowski ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
