Creating multiple GDG verion in same job

pingte · Active User Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 120 Location: india

Hi,
i have a job with following criteria.

Step 1; create a new GDG version (+1) as X.Y.Z(+1)

Step 2: create one more version of same GDG as X.Y.Z (+2)

Step 3: In this step use both the version as i/p file to a program.

muthuvel · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:23 am

Did you make a try ,what happened?

pingte · Active User Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 120 Location: india

this was aked in an interview ...
i didn't try..

Naresh Kumar Reddy P · New User Joined: 24 May 2007 Posts: 8 Location: Bangalore

Yes! You can create & reference the second generation in the same job using +2.

Thanks
Reddy

srebba · New User Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 37 Location: USA

Yes,
U can create adn reffered till limit is reached,

Thank you,

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:01 pm

Hello,

While you can refer to the +1, +2, etc version in the same job, it may complicate any restart procedures.

srebba · New User Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 37 Location: USA

I dont understand why its much complicate. while restart ....

Simpy make the changes +2 to 0 and +1 to -1 GDGs
Please let me know if this wrong

Thank you
sree

Phrzby Phil · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 8:50 pm

As noted in an earlier post, some schedulers, including Control-M's Control-R restart facility, handle the gen# adjustment for you.

dick scherrer · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:45 am

Hello,

If/when you find yourself trying to restart a very old job that has been "enhanced" many times to include multiple generations of multiple gdg files and uses some convoluted condition code testing, you will get an appreciation of this