Two Item Numbers with the same Short Item Number?

Is it possible to have two different item numbers point to the same short item number?  Is there a New Item Replaces field in the Item Master for JDE 9.1 tools 9.1.3?  For instance since we can’t change the Primary UOM and the item might have been set up wrong to begin with, we create an entire new item.  If someone searches for the old item number, they will get the new item that is set up.  I wondered if we can use the Item Number for two different Short Item numbers?  So if item 10052 is now supposed to