You just described Git.

Set a repo in a server.
Update&commit from any Lpar.
Push from all lpars at midnight.

The conversion from/to local repository folder to/from PDS is not difficult.

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> I have multiple SYSPlexes in different data centers, none of which share
> DASD (some data centers have multiple SYSPlexes). All LPARs currently run
> zOS 3.1 which is fairly up to date regarding maintenance.
>
> I have a common PDS (PDS-E actually) which is a commonly named PDS. Let's
> call it AA.BB.CC . All updates to any member of AA.BB.CC should be via a
> TSO user via ISPF edit. Thinking about it, I'd also like to sync members
> without the ISPF timestamp, although if this occurred, not replace like
> members if they didn't have the ISPF timestamp, since there's no way to
> know which one is newest,
>
> The rule is, I have one LPAR where all of the updates should take place,
> although I don't want to depend on that. So all the updates should be made
> on LPAR A. But if someone did update a member on LPAR B in a different
> SYSSPlex, all of the PDS's would get that update as well.
>
> Is there something in zOS FTP, or potentially a product (IBM or vendor),
> which will allow me to "sync" the members? So that no matter which LPAR an
> update to a member happened, all the datasets would get the newest member?
>
> This wouldn't have to be simultaneous ... I can run scheduled batch on one
> or potentially all of the involved LPARS on all of the SYSPlexes on off
> hours. So if the "sync" occurred once at night, that would be sufficient.
> And all of the SYSPlexes are accessible to each other via TCP/IP.
>
> And yes, I could use RACF to lock out updating the dataset on LPARs wher
> it shouldn't be updated, although I'd rather not do that.
>
> Does anybody else do this or have tackled this before? I'm trying not to
> re-invent the wheel here.
>
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