Logical Names

Created using ASSIGN and DEFINE.

$ ASSIGN DUA0:[MY_DIR] MY_DIR

$ DEFINE MY_DIR DUA0:[MY_DIR]

Deleted using DEASSIGN.

$ DEASSIGN MY_DIR

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Logical names are another kind of variable. These values can be global to a process, a job (processes owned by a parent process), a UIC group, all processes on the system, or any process which has access to the logical name table in which the logical name is defined.

The ASSIGN and DEFINE statements are similar, except for the order of their arguments.

The DEASSIGN statement is used to delete logical names.