DELETE ALIAS statement

Deletes an alias from the alias table.

Syntax

DELETE ALIAS {alias| VALUE ( expression ) }

alias

An existing alias. It can be an unquoted string or a quoted string.

VALUE (expression)

A character-string expression that evaluates to an existing alias.

This procedure deletes the alias myalias from the alias table:

r-dalias.p

DELETE ALIAS myalias.

If a precompiled program requires an alias and you delete that alias, the program will not run.

If you try to delete a nonexistent alias, nothing happens.