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NEWLINK
Table 5-7 CI Commands Affected by Symbolic Links
You can issue the NEWLINK command from a session, job, program, or in BREAK. NEWLINK
requires Save Files (SF) capability, Create Directory entry (CD) and Traverse Directory
(TD) permissions.
Command
Name
Follow
Link
Notes
CHGROUP No None
DISKUSE Yes/No Link is resolved before the operation is performed. If a
symbolic link exists under the account that link is not
resolved. Therefore disk space usage of its target is not
included in the calculations.
LISTACCT No None
LISTFILE No Link is not resolved. Therefore, operation is performed on t he
name specified. LISTFILE formats 5 and 7 may be used to
determine the im mediate target of a symbolic link.
LISTGROUP No None
NEWLINK No The LINK parameter may not name a symbolic name. The TO
parameter is not checked at all.
PURGE Yes This behaves differently than the UNIX rm command.
PURGEACCT No/No Link is not resolved. Therefore, operation is performed on the
specified name. If a symbolic link exists under the account,
that link is not resolved and its target is not removed.
PURGEDIR Yes/No Link is resolved before the operation is performed. If a
symbolic link exists under the directory, that link is not
resolved before it is removed. Therefore, its target is not
affected.
PURGEGROUP No/No Link is not resolved. Therefore, operation is performed on the
specified name. If a symbolic link exists under the account
that link is not resolved and its target is not removed.
REPORT No Link is not resolved. Therefore, operation is performed on the
name specified. Note that REPORT treats its first parameter as
a group name. Therefore, if a link name is specified, that name
is treated as a group name regardless of the type of its target.
RESTORE No Link is not resolved. Therefore, operation is performed on the
name specified.
STORE No Link is not resolved. Therefore, operation is performed on the
name specified.
