For those working with, or experimenting, with PDSE Version 2 Member Generations there is nothing better than PDSEGEN (at least for the price).
PDSEGEN is an ISPF dialog that works makes working with Member Generations easy and intuitive. Included with PDSEGEN is the ability to Backup all member and generations, retaining all ISPF statistics, to a normal PDS that can be processed by any software that works with a PDS (e.g. IEBCOPY, TSO Transmit, etc.). There is a Restore capability to restore the backup PDS to a PDSE with all members and generations in tact. Another tool included is the ability to Copy PDSE members with their generations. In addition to those you can Browse and View any member or generation, Edit the base member (edit is prevented on non-0 generations until JCL and dynamic allocation enable access to them at which point PDSEGEN can be changed to allow Edit on non-0 generations. The capability is also provided to compare 2 generations (non-0 to 0 and non-0 to non-0). And more. I've just posted version 3.8 to www.lbdsoftware.com <http://www.lbdsoftware.com> and it has the following updates: Version 3.8 August 05, 2016 - ASM changes PDSEGDEL - Added as a REXX function to delete members and member generations (not to be used for non member generation enabled datasets) - Exec changes $RECV - Updated to properly handle the source dataset name PDSEGEN - Update locate routine when member not located - update reName newname to mbr - correction for null tso prefix users - use PDSEGEL to delete members/generations if the generations are enabled - used in the rename routine as well - LMMDEL will be used for non-generation enabled datasets - fix bug in rename and recover thx to Bill Fleury PDSEGENC - correction for null tso prefix users - Misc changes $RECV - Correction for received dsn $INSTALL - Added - Panel changes PDSEGH0 - Correction for abbreviation comment - Add Delete to the Rename tutorial panel PDSEGHR - Add some more info to restrictions PDSEGHRN - Add Delete to the Rename tutorial panel PDSEGHT - Add tip on use of delete ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
