I've tried it and it works - thank you so much! I'm still wondering which search keywords I should have used to find this via Google ;-)
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Norbert Friemel > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 1:31 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Relative generation - how to recognize new > datasets under TSO > > On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:59:52 +0200, Beate Kawelke wrote: > > > > > > >Is there a way to "release" / "ignore" that connection (I have looked > through the DYNALLOC parameters, but to no avail) or do I have to go > through the catalog and use my own logic to determine the correct DSN? > ISPF Edit, much to my surprise, gets it right - if I specify generation > 0, the new dataset will be found. > > > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1II08285 > > "Note: Dynamic allocations can turn on bit S99GDGNT to bypass > using the table and thus always locate the current entry > (generation 0) at the time of the allocation. This allows > them always to know the current generation, even when this > job (or another job), running on the same system (or a > different system, as long as the catalog is shared between > systems) has added generations since this job began." > > > Norbert Friemel > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
