Good. My application was to produce a report of CICS transactions on the second Tuesday of each month. The REXX needed to identify SMF dumps that spanned that particular day. listc ent('XDCOM.RXX') GDG BASE ------ XDCOM.RXX IN-CAT --- USERCAT.ISI NONVSAM ---- XDCOM.RXX.G0001V00 IN-CAT --- USERCAT.ISI NONVSAM ---- XDCOM.RXX.G0002V00 IN-CAT --- USERCAT.ISI NONVSAM ---- XDCOM.RXX.G0003V00 IN-CAT --- USERCAT.ISI NONVSAM ---- XDCOM.RXX.G0004V00 IN-CAT --- USERCAT.ISI
listc ent('XDCOM.RXX.G0001V00') NONVSAM ------- XDCOM.RXX.G0001V00 IN-CAT --- USERCAT.ISI HISTORY DATASET-OWNER-----(NULL) CREATION--------2020.096 RELEASE----------------2 EXPIRATION------0000.000 ENCRYPTIONDATA DATA SET ENCRYPTION-----(NO) VOLUMES VOLSER------------ZZZZZ1 DEVTYPE------X'3010200F' FSEQN--------- --------0 ASSOCIATIONS GDG------XDCOM.RXX ATTRIBUTES Creation date is what you need. On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 6:32 PM Peter <dbajava...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Wayne > > Yes exactly this is what I was looking. > > On Wed, 5 Jan, 2022, 11:27 am Wayne Bickerdike, <wayn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> The date/time is stored with a new GDG entry. You can see it with a >> LISTCAT >> command. >> >> I developed a REXX program to parse GDG entries and build JCL to >> concatenate generations based on a day of the month. >> >> The timestamp is a form of Julian date. >> >> Is this what you are looking for? >> >> On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 4:38 PM Peter <dbajava...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hello >> > >> > I apologise if this is very dummy questions. >> > >> > Is there a way to have a GDG base with date time stamp ? So that any GDG >> > versions created will have Date stamp in it during creation. Any >> samples if >> > someone can refer me or share ? >> > >> > Please advise >> > >> > Peter >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > >> >> >> -- >> Wayne V. Bickerdike >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN