The
DEFINE ALIAS command creates an ALIAS or symbolic ALIAS for a dataset
Parameters:
MFJAMS supports the following parameters. They are supported as documented in the IBM documentation unless otherwise stated below:
- NAME(aliasname)
- Is the alias (the alternate entryname) for a user catalog or non-VSAM data set. An alias must be unique within a catalog.
- RELATE(entryname)
- Abbreviation: REL
Is the name of the entry (the user catalog entryname or the non-VSAM data set name) for which the alias is defined.
Restriction: The RELATE and SYMBOLICRELATE parameters are mutually exclusive and cannot be specified at the same time. The resolved value
for
entryname in RELATE must be a catalog entry that is located in the same catalog that contains the value for
aliasname.
- SYMBOLICRELATE(entryname)
- Abbreviation: SYM
Optional
Requires the specification of the base data set name using system symbols. For more details, see
Extended Alias Support in
z/OS DFSMS Managing Catalogs.
- CATALOG(catname)
- The catalog parameter is parsed and ignored.