Going back to the original post, as I'm not sure we are all talking about the same thing. Your example dsname would be for a PDSE GDG, not PDSE member generations (which are not accessible with JCL at all). And you're basically correct, as JCL doesn't (yet?) support both a relative gen and a member name. OTOH, it should be easy enough to use a utility to grab the member(s) you want.
I was surprised when PDSE GDGs were announced, because a) I assumed any dataset already could be a GDG, and b) didn't know why anyone would want to do it. When you combine the two, you might need to reference FOO.MAIN.JCL(-1)(JOB42(-2)) to get the exact one you want, right? Maybe that would be a nightmare, but it's not likely to be reality ;-) sas On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:17 AM Steve Thompson <ste...@copper.net> wrote: > I am reading the Using Data Sets manual for z/OS 2.2 (DFSMS stuff). > > Has anyone attempted to use the version feature of PDSE? > > I'd love to hear about your experiences before I even think about > suggesting this for a current client of mine. > > What they want is a replacement of a librarian product (not > necessarily Librarian) using PDSEs. > > From what I read right now, this concept is a nightmare (within > PDSEs). > > You will need to specify which generation you are after, but that > means you have to know which generation the source you need was > saved (archived) in. > > Per the book, as I have read so far, and "understand" at this > point, you would have to do this: > > A.B.C.GnnnnVnn(member) in order to access the "archived" member. > > So I am very interested in what anyone has done and/or > experienced in this area. > > Regards, > Steve Thompson > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- sas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
