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How to delete GDG units for specific creation month?


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Lord.of.Wind

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:15 am
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Hi,

I want to delete some GDG units created in the past 12 months, how can I write the codes?
For example, today is 2008-4-28, so the following GDG units created in
2007-04
2007-05
2007-06
2007-07
2007-08
2007-09
2007-10
2007-11
2007-12
2008-01
2008-02
2008-03
will be deleted.

Many thanks!
James
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 11:03 am
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Hello,

How sure are you that there was only 1 new generation created each month?

How many generations are to be kept by the gdg definition (LIMIT)?

Are these tape or dasd datasets?

If it is verified that there was exactly one per month, the relative generations will be -1, -2, etc thru -12.

Are you sure that you want to delete the ones that are so recent?
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Lord.of.Wind

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:05 pm
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Thank you for your reply first.
I raised a wrong question, in fact I should do a sort on a history GDG file to filter out records that generated 12 month ago.
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:10 pm
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You're welcome icon_smile.gif

Is there still a question?

If there is, please post some info about the data and how you want to process it.
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Lord.of.Wind

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 11:06 am
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I raised my question here. icon_smile.gif
ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?p=130513#130513
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