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 / aloke deb
PDS is similar to a folder in which files are kept. Their
organization format is PDS. GDG's have organizaton as PS
(similar to flat files) but the only addition is they
maintain versions of the previous data.
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