I found in one of the jcl, gdg version being mentioned as :
abc.def.ghi(-0)
Can anyone tell me how referring the version as (-0) is
different from referring it as (0)

Answer Posted / fred

abc.xyz.gdg(0)
abc.xyz.gdg(+0)
abc.xyz.gdg(-0)


all are same.

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