On Mon, 27 Oct 2014 06:53:51 -0500, John McKown wrote: >Summary of Key Functions in z/OS V2.1 >http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/tips1217.html?Open > >DFSMS Technical updates. >http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg248190.html?Open > >What grabbed my eye in this was a new PDSE version. If you create a PDSE as >a version 2 PDSE, then you can retain "old" generations of a PDSE member >and retrieve them by relative or absolute generation number. Shades of >PANVALET and Librarian which kept "archive levels". Or, IIRC, how VMS kept >files with "version numbers" in them akin to GDGs. > Will there be syntactic extensions to DYNALLOC, ALLOCATE, BPXWDYN JCL DD, Binder INCLUDE, other HLL APIs ... to support accessing archival generations via BPAM/QSAM, or will it be necessary to "retrieve" them into other data sets to process them? What will be the process if a programmer wishes to perform an assembly and link with a snapshot of the respective SYSLIBs as they existed six months earlier?
Read-only, I hope. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
