How to createing new version of GDG with out loosing the
data in preaves GDG version?

Answer Posted / amrita

While mentioning the GDG file in JCL, write (+1) infront of
the file name eg: DD DSN=xxx.yyy(+1),DISP=(NEW,,)

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