There are PDSE V1 and V2. Never was sure why IBM decided to do that. There's no significant external difference other than only V2 supports member generations.
IEBCOPY's unload file format is documented fairly well in an appendix of the Dataset Utilities manual. I think you were looking at flags, not a number as such. sas On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 7:00 PM Tom Brennan <[email protected]> wrote: > Do PDSE's have format version numbers? I remember (2015) looking at a > problem where IEBCOPY would not copy what I think IBM called a V3 PDSE > member, and that failure could be predicted by looking at a byte pretty > close to the front of the member data (or maybe it was the dir entry) > that was x'02' (copied ok) or x'03' (wouldn't copy to a standard PDS). > That was right around the time COBOL started requiring PDSE's and I > assumed it was like you say, for long name support. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
