Good idea. Now, how to train my fingers to know what my head knows? Lennie -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Wayne Bickerdike Sent: 29 September 2022 21:48 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Minor disaster
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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
