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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories DFSMS PDS/PDSE
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 3, 2022

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Add better support in JCL for accessing non 0 PDSEv2 members. Merged

We are using PDSEv2 more and more, specifically the feature that supports prior versions of members.
However, the mechanisms to reference non-0 members is quite difficult leading us to write our own program to allocate the desired member.
Thus, the well known mechanisms such as JCL, IEBCOPY and various ISPF (specifically SUPERC/CE) options cannot be easily used.

I will submit multiple RFEs, one for each component.

For the JCL component (allocation), we would like to be able to code a DD statement that points to a non 0 version of a member. For example:
//SYSUT1 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MY.PDS(MEMBER),VERSION=(-1)
or
//SYSUT1 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MY.PDS(MEMBER(-1))

For the IEBCOPY component, we would like to be able to SELECT a member by its generation, for example:
S M=(MEMBER,,,-1)
or
S M=MEMBER,VERSION=-1

For the ISPF SUPERC/SUPERCE (options 3.12 and 3.13) we would like the panels updated to include something like: Member Generation ... ____

Idea priority High

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