Thank you for that - I've seen SYSDA at every shop I've worked at since the early so made that false assumption.
Lionel B. Dyck <>< Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com Github: https://github.com/lbdyck “Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David Spiegel Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2023 9:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How batch create a PDSE2 with Generations? Hi Lionel, SYSDA is a user-defined esoteric group. SYSALLDA, OTOH, encompasses all DASD Units and is built-in to z/OS. Regards, David On 2023-06-26 11:58, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: > The OP asked for batch, and I assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that he wanted to > do it with JCL for a vendor product installation. > > SYSDA, SYSALLDA, or 3390 - all should work as generic unit types and an > optional vol=ser=xxxxxx may be needed if SMS is not active and/or the dasd is > not mounted as public. > > Doing it using REXX, or some other scripting language, would also work. > > > Lionel B. Dyck <>< > Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com/ > Github: https://github.com/lbdyck > > “Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you > are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2023 10:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: How batch create a PDSE2 with Generations? > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 10:38:03 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: > >> Try this - just tested and it does work. Hope it helps >> >> //PDSEALC EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 >> //PDSE DD DISP=(NEW,CATLG),DSN=MYHLQ.NEW.PDSE, >> // UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(15,15),DSORG=PO, >> // DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=0), >> // DSNTYPE=(LIBRARY,2),MAXGENS=15 >> > Also supported by BPXWDYN (yay!): > <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=output-requesting-dynamic > -allocation> > > Is batch ISPF an alternative or do generations depend on graphic terminal? > > What releases does the OP wish to support? > > IS SYALLSDA preferable to SYSDA since the latter is nonstandard? > > -- > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
