How to create an alias to a member of a PDS

Shakila · New User Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Noida

How to create an alias to a member of a PDS?

I need syntax to create an alias to a member of a PDS.

Looking forward for your reply

nuthan · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:06 pm

As per my knowledge we can't create alias for a PDS Member.

nuthan · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:09 pm

Try this

RENAME 'pds.name(oldname)' 'pds.name(newname)' ALIAS

The ALIAS option specifies that "newname" is to be an alias, rather than a replacement.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:11 pm

wow what a quick change of mind...
sometimes the keyboard is faster than the brain :-)

but... beware
if i remember correctly for load modules the only way is
thru linkage_editor/binder

Shakila · New User Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Noida

Hi All,

Thanks for your reply.

I got a Rexx code to do this operation but i do no how to implement it...
Can anyone help me.

Code : ALXRPDSC('ALIAS','DDNAME','MEMBER','NEW_MEMBER')

ALXRPDSC('ALIAS','LOADLIB','NEWIBALL','IEBIBALL')

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:37 pm

ofer71 · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:43 pm

ALXRPDSC is a freeware of SSC, INC., and is documented here (took me 10 seconds to find it using Google).

O.

Shakila · New User Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Noida

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:49 pm

It would be a pleasure for us to see that a response is being read,
but, alas, this is not the case
I WARNED YOU ABOUT PROBLEMS WITH LOAD MODULES,
but You did not care
the idcams rename is not smart enough to carry in the directory
entry all the info for a load module

Shakila · New User Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Noida

Hi Enrico,

Thank you for your advice. I will stop my work regarding this issue.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:01 pm

Shakila · New User Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Noida

Hi Enrico,

I am working as System Programmer and I have knowledge of assembler and rexx too.....

I having this doubt for the past two days and then I decided to post this in forum thatswhy I post and I got an idea also.

I hope it will help me in my endeavour. Thanks a lot for your quick response:)

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:51 pm

Hi Shakila,

You will certainly find the alias technique useful
installing, or better upgrading program products,

Usually for PP, the convention is to put in the dataset names
a reference to, speaking in IBM terminology,
Version, Release, Modification-Level

for example for DB2 it would be something like "DSN610.SDSNEXIT"

Nobody would like to change the production Jcl to reflect a DB2
change to "DSN710.SDSNEXIT"

this is where the alias technique will help

You might define a standard of naming the libraries without the VRM reference
"DSN.SDSNEXIT"

at cutover from one version/release to the new one
a simple realiasing would make all Your job streams use the new environment