FYI, IBM File Manager provides the PDSE Workbench utility which supports working directly with any member generation in a PDSE V2. For example, you can browse/view previous member generations, compare member generations and recover a member from an earlier generation. This can all be done from a member list display. If you try to delete the current member (generation = 0) a confirmation panel is displayed where you have the option to either delete the current member and all its generations or delete the current member and have the most recent generation become the current member.
Now wouldn't it be great to have that type of functionality available with the ISPF enhanced member list 😉 Peter Van Dyke ex ISPF development team On Thu, 29 Sept 2022 at 06:57, Paul Gilmartin < 0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2022 23:16:25 +0100, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw wrote: > > >I have sympathy with your scepticism. > >You can recover previous generations. But deleting a member deletes all > generations. > >I think IBM have missed a trick here. Would not have been beyond the wit > of man to have an UNDELETE operation. > > > Or even an orderly "Revert to earlier generation". > > "Delete" should present a dialog: "How many generations" as a profile > option. > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Tony Harminc > >Sent: 28 September 2022 18:13 > > ... > >So, um, what are PDSE generations *for* if not this kind of thing? I've > never used them, but just assumed recovering from such finger trouble was > the purpose. Is there some "production" use case for them? > > > A marketing ploy to sell unusable DASD? > > -- > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
