I would recommend that the OP always use the '/' command instead of 'S'.
Given that S and D are co-located on the keyboard and / is far away.

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 10:49 PM Lionel B. Dyck <[email protected]> wrote:

> The issue of how to deal with PDSE member generations is one that I
> struggled with when developing PDSEGEN. The solution that I came up with
> was
> to allow individual generations to be deleted, which required writing a
> routine to do so as the native TSO DELETE and ISPF Delete options would
> only
> delete the base member without the generations at the time.
>
> With PDSEGEN you always see a member list with the base member and all
> generations.
>
> With PDSEGEN you can delete the base member with a prompt informing you
> that
> you are deleting the base and all generations, or you can delete base
> member
> and have the -1 promoted to be the new base.
>
> Note that once a generation is deleted that you may not recover it due to
> the way the PDSE data store is architected. That is both good (never having
> to compress) and bad (inability to recover a deleted element). However, I
> believe this was the right decision by the developers.
>
> Now if only the standard ISPF application had these capabilities.
>
> Lionel B. Dyck <><
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> Github: https://github.com/lbdyck
>
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