Re: RFE to enhance GDGORDER in JCL

2016-01-13 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: >>Could work, but it is not always known that there are indeed 5 generations. >>Lizette wants the oldest and the access method should find that oldest entry >>no matter what the quantity of versions there are. >I may not have worded my comment correctly. All I was

Re: RFE to enhance GDGORDER in JCL

2016-01-13 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 00:38 -0600 on 01/13/2016, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote about Re: RFE to enhance GDGORDER in JCL: >IOW: //GDG DD DISP=SHR,DSN=GDGBASE,GDGORDER=FIFO when there are 5 generations yields: Could work, but it is not always known that there are indeed 5 generations. Lizette wants the old

Re: RFE to enhance GDGORDER in JCL

2016-01-12 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Lizette Koehler wrote: >I created my fist RFE, so be gentle. "Really Fine Enhancement!" ;-D >Use the GDGORDER parameter for a DD that specifies the base name of a GDG data >set (a GDG-all request). This keyword specifies the order in which the >individual generation data sets (GDSs) will be

Re: RFE to enhance GDGORDER in JCL

2016-01-12 Thread J. P.
You are asking IBM to provide a new access method to read the file(s) backward with your request. And there is no guarantee that the actual access method invoked by the program(s) involved will be compatible with your new backwards access method (lets call it LBAM, shall we?). For example,

Re: RFE to enhance GDGORDER in JCL

2016-01-12 Thread John McKown
On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 2:06 PM, J. P. wrote: > You are asking IBM to provide a new access method to read the file(s) > backward with your request. And there is no guarantee that the actual > access method invoked by the program(s) involved will be compatible with >

Fw: Re: RFE to enhance GDGORDER in JCL

2016-01-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
uot;J. P." >Sent: Jan 12, 2016 1:06 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: RFE to enhance GDGORDER in JCL > >You are asking IBM to provide a new access method to read the file(s) backward >with your request. And there is no guarantee that the actual access method >

Re: RFE to enhance GDGORDER in JCL

2016-01-12 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
. At 14:06 -0600 on 01/12/2016, J. P. wrote about Re: RFE to enhance GDGORDER in JCL: You are asking IBM to provide a new access method to read the file(s) backward with your request. And there is no guarantee that the actual access method invoked by the program(s) involved will be compatible