Comparing and searching alias members

When you compare or search all of the members of two partitioned data sets using the command S * (to select all entries in the directory) on the member list, any members that have alias entries are processed once for the real name, and once for each alias entry. For compare, unpaired aliases appear in the same list as unpaired real members as "NON-PAIRED NEW FILE MEMBERS" or "NON-PAIRED OLD FILE MEMBERS".

When you compare or search entire data sets by using an asterisk (*) for a member name pattern, only real members, not aliases, are processed. For compare, all directory entries (for both real members and aliases) are analyzed. Messages appear at the end of the SuperC output listing that give information about unpaired alias entries for paired real members as follows:

"NEW" PAIRED MEMBERS WITH "NEW" ALIAS MEMBERS NOT PAIRED FOLLOW:
         MEMBER1/ALIAS1  MEMBER1/ALIAS2  MEMBER2/ALIAS1 ...
          or
"OLD" PAIRED MEMBERS WITH "OLD" ALIAS MEMBERS NOT PAIRED FOLLOW:
         MEMBER1/ALIAS1  MEMBER1/ALIAS2  MEMBER2/ALIAS1 ...

followed by a listing of the unpaired member/alias entries.

Note:

Consider the ALLMEMS process option if you want to compare all directory entries, including aliases, but do not want to select them from a member list. This is useful for batch comparisons of entire load modules.
This listing section is not created for non-load module data sets containing alias entries.