See these recent APAR closures to resolve the PDSE scroll max issue and one 
other:

APAR or PTF     Updated Status  CC      Component       Abstract and comments
OA55431 6/7/18  CLOSED  PER     ISPF Z/OS PDF&S AN ABEND 002-A8 OCCURS DOING A 
SCROLL MAX DOWN ON A PDSE MEMBER
OA54890 6/6/18  CLOSED  PER     EXTENDED DATA S IEBPDSE DETECTED PDSE DIRECTORY 
CORRUPTION FOLLOWING AN ISPF IEBPDSE

I prefer to use member generations rather than a full blown source control 
system for my personal JCL, REXX, ISPF Panel, and a few other libraries. I keep 
up to 20 generations while working on updates and will then prune down to 1-3 
after things are looking solid and then prune down to 0 generations when I'm 
truly happy with the updates. Prune is a feature of PDSEGEN that deletes 
generations while leaving the requested number of generations alive.

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Lionel B. Dyck (Contractor)  <sdg><
Mainframe Systems Programmer – RavenTek Solution Partners


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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Steve Smith
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2018 9:00 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: PDSEGEN - 2 years old

That's it for me.  I like JCL and working source libraries to have 2-5
generations just so I can go back if the need arises (or I just
accidentally save when I didn't really want to).

As a side note, the other "improvements" with PDSE V2 seem to cause
problems when trying to scroll max down through large members.  This is
almost certainly a bug, and it may have been fixed already, or at least
will be.  But unless I need generations, I usually stick with V1.

sas

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 9:48 AM, Jerry Callen <[email protected]> wrote:

> So, I'm curious: What are people actually USING member generations for?
>
> For source code, it seems like a decent source control system is a better
> bet. Are member generations primarily a form of "oops recovery?"
>
> -- Jerry
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