I have 5 generations in my GDG. How do I code in the JCL to consider all the 5

I have 5 generations in my GDG. How do I code in the JCL to
consider all the 5 versions of the GDG ?

Question Posted / nimsatprasad

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I have 5 generations in my GDG. How do I code in the JCL to consider all the 5 versions of the GDG..

Answer / archana

Specify only the GDG base. All the versions of GDG will be
considered.

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I have 5 generations in my GDG. How do I code in the JCL to consider all the 5 versions of the GDG..

Answer / sucharita

Specify only the GDG base name without any version. It will
concatenate all the versions and consider it as one dataset.

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I have 5 generations in my GDG. How do I code in the JCL to consider all the 5 versions of the GDG..

Answer / kabi

infile dd dsn=gdg base name,DISP=SHR----------Specify only
the GDG base name without any versionwe, have to mentioned
gdgbase then using SHR option.

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I have 5 generations in my GDG. How do I code in the JCL to consider all the 5 versions of the GDG..

Answer / shridhar

Two options:

1. GDG base.
2. GDG(0) to GDG(5).

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I have 5 generations in my GDG. How do I code in the JCL to consider all the 5 versions of the GDG..

Answer / guest

limit=5,
no scratch,
no empty

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9 Yes

10 No