want to copy GDG with out mentioning them in DD DSN

sunnyfuture · New User Joined: 06 Jun 2005 Posts: 4

hi all,
My name is aravind can anyone plz try to give me an effective ans for this.

I want to copy last 10 members of a GDG(which has 250 members in it) with out mentioning them in DD DSN
i.e.
I don't want to mention like
//SYSUT1 DD DSN = PC1.COMMERCIAL.STATFILE(0),DISP=SHR
DD DSN = PC1.COMMERCIAL.STATFILE(-1),DISP=SHR
DD DSN = PC1.COMMERCIAL.STATFILE(-2),DISP=SHR
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DD DSN = PC1.COMMERCIAL.STATFILE(-9),DISP=SHR

I want to copy without mentioning individual members as concatenating datasets.
Is there a way to code so as to get the above result without including the list of members as Concatenating datasets?

thanks in advance.
regards,
aravind

Deepa.m · New User Joined: 28 Apr 2005 Posts: 99

No it is not possible. you have to follow the method you are currently using to copy limited GDG.

sunnyfuture · New User Joined: 06 Jun 2005 Posts: 4

so in that case do we need to mention all those generations.this is k for small num of gdgs gens,but if we intend to copy hundreds of gdgs gens,this would be a tedious process.so deepa r u sure this is the only process because i think there might be some process. plz feel free to correct me if i am wrong

superk · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:06 pm

aravind, if you create a list of all the generations of the GDG, and then select the last 10 items, you would have the list of dataset names to be copied. You could then easily pass the list to a program/utility and build the required copy statements.

What order do you want to copy the datasets in (LIFO? FIFO?)? Are you copying each generation to a seperate dataset, or do you wish to concatenate all of the generations into a single dataset?