Is there a way to swap? Actually, you can edit the old generation and save it which will create a new base (generation 0) member and the original base will become the -1 generation. That's about the best you can do.
With PDSEGEN you can compare any generation to any generation if that helps. Lionel B. Dyck <>< Github: https://github.com/lbdyck System Z Enthusiasts Discord: https://discord.gg/sze “Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2024 12:56 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Restore members in a PDS - how/which tool? On Thu, 9 May 2024 10:11:35 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: >It actually depends on how the member was deleted - sadly many tools will only >delete the base (generation 0) member and leave the non-zero generations >alone. However if that is the case then you need a tool that can display those >non-zero generations as, once again, many tools will ignore them (such as the >default ISPF browse/edit/view). > Is there any way to swap two generations of a member to do a regression test control ("Did this happen before?") and swap them back after? We used a UNIX-based CM product from an ISV (later acquired by IBM), that relied heavily on symbolic links. A coder could use a GUI to create a working "SYSLIB" composed of symlinks to members of various generations to build a working version (we used a cross assembler.) DSFS may have approached the wrong objective: more value in making UNIX files accessible to traditional utilities than in making traditional data sets accessible to UNIX utilities. -- 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
