On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:49:05 -0600, John McKown wrote: > >What I wish were a possibility would be an totally new >construct with similar semantics to a GDG. But the LLQ would somehow >encode the creation date & time (perhaps to the nearest second). No, I >don't know how to encode that into 8 "printable" characters.
Dyyyyddd.Thhmmss? >The semantics >I would like would be the ability to get the "current", "-1", and so on >entries without knowing the actual LLQ. And the ability to create a new >"generation" symbolically (likeunto the +1). Of course, the problem is >once again, what is the "date & time". Submition, or job initiation or >step initiation or dataset open or ...? I'd say allocation time. >Oh, and should the encoding be for >local time or GMT? GMT. Otherwise you couldn't tell what order they were created. >OK, it's a stupid idea. I don't think so. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
