Suppose 3 generations of a GDG exist. How would you
reference the 1st generation in the JCL?
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Answer / robin
Venu's answer is correct. But to be more understanding, you
have to give dataset.name(-2) to specify or use that version
of GDG(dataset.name specifies name of GDG base).
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