On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:00:52 +0200, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >No. RACF profile check real dataset name, not alias. >For datasets accessed for READ like MODGEN you can simply make a copy of >real dataset and name it as (previously deleted) alias. Then RACF >features will work and user's application should not fail. > But I once did something similar so I could incorporate a version number in the real dataset name and make the practical name an alias. this greatly upset a co-worker who, for undisclosed reason, had created his own alias to that practical name.
Alias-of-alias is not allowed. why not? That deserves an RFE. Catalog search overhead? That should be the customer's choice, with the supplier restricting cycles of aliases. Symbolic link to symbolic link works fine; IBM did it for current Java version. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
