DEFINE ALIAS Command[16]

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.