What about record sequence within datasets ?
If it remain unchanged, then it is not really chronological order.
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
Ray Mullins wrote:
Hello Mary,
Go to http://www.cbttape.org/ and look for a program called GDGCOPY in File
#482. That program copies a GDG in "reverse" order, that is,
chronologically.
There are lots of good little tidbits at that website.
Best regards,
Ray
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Subject: Processing GDG datasets in chronological order
Hi all,
First time poster (to this list anyway) here.
I have a question that perhaps someone out there has
already encountered and addressed. What I need to do is
process all existing generations of a GDG each time a given
job runs. The number of generations processed will vary, and
so, of course would the absolute generation numbers.
I know that if I simply code the DD statement so that it
refers to the GDG base, I will pick up all the existing
generations of that GDG. The problem I face is that, when
you code a DD statement this way, it processes the GDGs in
reverse chronological order (newest to oldest) but the
software that I need to process these GDGs through requires
that they be in order of creation (oldest to newest).
I know I can write a program that'll keep track of which
GDG's I've processed in some sort of control file and/or
dynamically create the JCL each time that way, but I'm
wondering (hoping) for a more transparent (and easier to
maintain and/or pass on) solution.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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