Do all versions of the GDG have to be of the same record
length ?

Answer Posted / nihar ranjan karan

With SMS managed datasets the concept of MODEL is obsolete
now. Now you can create each generation with different
attributes. But there is one drawback, the all the
generations cannot be used as a concatenated dataset using
the GDG base name.

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