What more info you should give in the DD statement while
defining the next generation of a GDG?



What more info you should give in the DD statement while defining the next generation of a GDG?..

Answer / guest

Give (+ as the generation number, give (new,catlg) for disp,
give space parameter, can give the DCB parameter if you want
to override the dcb of the model dataset.

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