On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Kirk Wolf <[email protected]> wrote:
> I want to resolve an existing GnnnVnn for a GDG using a (0) or (-n) > reference, but in this case I don't want to allocate the data set. > > Is there a better way than to list the HLQ.GDG.* catalog entries with > IGGCSI00 and then pick off the minus nth entry? (is this even correct in > all cases?) > > > BTW - I always want the "latest" table (for BPXWDYN, this is "GDGNT" ) > > Thanks, > > Kirk Wolf > Dovetailed Technologies > http://dovetail.com > > Kirk, perhaps you've heard of this wonderful product called Co:Z? <big grin> Using COZPROC catsearch -m 20000 'HLG.GDG.**' |\ egrep '^HLG\.GDG\.G[0-9]{4}V00$' |\ awk '$1 == "HLQ.GDG.G....V00" {gen=NR;} END {print "(" gen-NR ")";}' # replace .... above with the absolute generation number. The above does make the assumption that you don't use the NOSCRATCH option so that all the matching named data sets are in "rolled in" status. -- The unfacts, did we have them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
