On Thu, 9 May 2024 10:11:35 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote:
>It actually depends on how the member was deleted - sadly many tools will only
>delete the base (generation 0) member and leave the non-zero generations
>alone. However if that is the case then you need a tool that can display those
>non-zero generations as, once again, many tools will ignore them (such as the
>default ISPF browse/edit/view).
>
Is there any way to swap two generations of a member to do a
regression test control ("Did this happen before?") and swap
them back after?
We used a UNIX-based CM product from an ISV (later acquired by IBM),
that relied heavily on symbolic links. A coder could use a GUI to
create a working "SYSLIB" composed of symlinks to members of
various generations to build a working version (we used a cross
assembler.)
DSFS may have approached the wrong objective: more value in
making UNIX files accessible to traditional utilities than in
making traditional data sets accessible to UNIX utilities.
--
gil
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