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 <>< > Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com > Github: https://github.com/lbdyck > > “Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what > you > are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
