On Mon, 28 Mar 2022 15:27:22 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:

>He's looking for an alias without the restriction of being in the same 
>catalog. 
>
What's wrong with SYMBOLICRELATE?

>That would be useful for people who haven't set things up  to exploit 
>SYMBOLICRELATE, but I doubt that IBM will be willing to do it.
>
The simple RFE would be that the restriction that the related name
contain an "&" be removed.

It strikes me as an manifestation of a Catalog mindset that z/OS
supports "$" symbol expansion in symlinks.  Solaris met a
similar need with symbols in mount maps.

-- 
gil

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