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Celeste Locklin
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 5:37 pm    Post subject: PDS member name alias Reply with quote
what are reasons for creating an alias for a pds member?
i have seen them in change management libraries. Is there any other reason to use one?
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William Collins
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 15, 2013 4:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
So you can use a different name to refer to something. EXEC PGM=ICEMAN and EXEC PGM=SORT, if you have DFSORT installed, will both execute the same program.

In the past a dynamic call to a program with entrypoint(s) other than the main entrypoint, required that the other entrypoints be aliased.

You are unlikely to need to ALIAS these days as an application programmer.
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