What is the difference between a PDS member and a GDG
Generation ? Is it only this, that with a generation we can
use +1, 0, -1 etc while with PDS member we can not ?

Answer Posted / krishna

pds is the dataset that is partitioned.Gdg is like PDS but
all the versions has same name.

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