I misunderstood, however, Peter said that's what he was looking for.
My solution wasn't well liked by the customer, it was complex. There was a
suggestion to dynamically create a file with a date suffix, obviating the
use of a GDG.
On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 7:05 PM kekronbekron <
000002dee3fcae33-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Hmm... Wayne is parsing LISTC output of existing GDG and grouping them
> differently based on the content.
> OP is looking for a way to allocate GDG/GDS-es themselves with date/time.
>
> I still don't know clearly what's possible with system symbols, JCL
> symbols, etc.
>
> That said, I don't think it's possible to get away from the .Gxxxx name of
> GDS.
> In which case, inserting date & time dynamically from JCL, to a GDG base
> isn't of much use.
>
> A.JAN04.Gxxx
> A.JAN05.Gxxx
>
> It's essentially creating new GDG base for each date/time, so no use.
> Could just go for normal datasets with dynamic date/time, and then setup
> another batch job for handling their lifecycle.
> Or use SMS rules to process these specific datasets however you need.
>
> - KB
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>
> On Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 at 1:10 PM, Wayne Bickerdike <
> wayn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > > > >
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