One possible reason that the listcat doesnt show the GDS's as part of the GDG is that they were not created using +1 and so may need to have an IDCAMS (Alter xxxxxx ROLLIN) done against all 3 GDS's
John Clifford On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:10 PM, CM Poncelet <[email protected]> wrote: > The "(+1)" would imply a new GDG entry. Existing ones would be "(0)", > "(-1)" etc., but I doubt that IDCAMS would recognize relative GDG entries > coded as "(0)","(-1)" anyway. Just my ha'pennyworth. > > > Dana Mitchell wrote: > > We have an application that generates log tapes (virtual) with a date >> and time stamp in the DSN. In order to process them easily in a DR or test >> situation, it would be nice to have some of them in a GDG. We are not >> z/OS 2.1 yet, so even if they are created as a GDG, they would read in >> LIFO order, not what's needed. Since they are tape, they cannot be >> renamed, so I thought defining alias entries to point to each would work. >> But define alias didn't work with (+1) in the name but definging them with >> absolute generation numbers did work: >> DEFINE ALIAS(NAME(xxxx.APPLY.LOGS.G0001V00) - >> RELATE(xxxx.LOG.D14140.T134117.L0045718.TAPE)) >> DEFINE ALIAS(NAME(xxxx.APPLY.LOGS.G0002V00) - >> RELATE(xxxx.LOG.D14140.T133348.L0045717.TAPE)) >> DEFINE ALIAS(NAME(xxxx.APPLY.LOGS.G0003V00) - >> RELATE(xxxx.LOG.D14140.T132555.L0045716.TAPE)) >> >> The define alias statements end with CC0. I can reference a generation >> via the G0001V00 name, but not via relative generation or all generations >> via the base name. >> - Enter "/" to select action ------------------------------ >> xxxx.APPLY.LOGS xxxx.APPLY.LOGS.G0001V00 >> xxxx.APPLY.LOGS.G0002V00 xxxx.APPLY.LOGS.G0003V00 >> >> Listcat shows the GDSs are not associated with the GDG: >> >> >> GDG BASE ------ xxxx.APPLY.LOGS IN-CAT >> --- CATALOG.MVSD HISTORY >> DATASET-OWNER-----(NULL) >> CREATION--------2014.140 RELEASE----------------2 LAST >> ALTER------0000.000 ATTRIBUTES >> LIMIT-----------------24 SCRATCH NOEMPTY >> ASSOCIATIONS--------(NULL) >> Can Alias names be GDS's? Is there some other way to accomplish this? >> thanks >> Dana >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
