On Mon, 12 Mar 2018 07:55:10 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: > >For an ordinary data set alias, the alias must be defined in the same catalog >as the related data set, and the alias must be found using the normal catalog >search. For an alias using SYMBOLICRELATE, this restriction is changed. Once >the alias is found by normal catalog search, the catalog search is is redriven >from the master catalog. > Always, or only (perhaps for performance/compatibility) only if it first fails searching the catalog containing the alias?
Alas, you can't use SYMBOLICRELATE unless you have an actual substitutable symbol in the ALIAS name. Another stupid restriction. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
