I don't know what technical reasons there are for restricting an alias to be in the same catalog as its target, but they would certainly be much more powerful if they weren't. It would also be nice to have symlinks that could point at MVS datasets, and aliases that pointed at USS files.
I don't see that it could hurt to ask. sas On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 10:37 AM Rob Schramm <[email protected]> wrote: > I wasn't actually talking about using a symbol (as in system symbol)... but > referring to the unix command create symbolic link. > ln -s [OPTIONS] FILE LINK > > and that is why I was proposing a SYMLINK. but I am not tied to the name > if it causes confusion. ALIASLINK works.. or something like it. > > I am much more interested in the underlying functionality and > creating something useful for helping sysprogs and other manage catalogs. > > Rob > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
