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[tuck23]

Attempting to restore 0 version of a dataset. i'm using symbolics, its restoring -1 version. when i put +0 in my symbolic it restores correct version. i thought that +0 and 0 was the same. do any one in here know if there is a conflict with 0 being used with symbolics? thanx in advance.

[kolusu]

Tuck23,

Could it be that someother job might have created a new gen while you are trying to access the latest gen? it does not matter if you give +0 or 0 it would always give you the latest gen available.

Another thing to check is that if you are creating a new gen in a step above and trying to access the created gen with +0 will not work.You need to code +1 to access the newly created gen.

If it is none of the above cases, then please post your JCL and we will take a look at it.

Hope this helps...

cheers

kolusu

[Cogito-Ergo-Sum]

Excuse me. But, what is meant by "restore"? Something like ROLLIN?
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[kolusu]

cogito,

I am guessing that "restore" in this scenario meant that they are merely copying or extracting the data from the generations to another sequential file.

Kolusu

[Cogito-Ergo-Sum]

I was not specifically questioning you, Kolusu. My query was mainly pointed to Tuck.

BTW, if the new job CREATED a generation BEFORE he was copying, then he would get the generation created by the job. OTOH, if the job DELETED the latest generation BEFORE he was copying, using 0 will point to -1 wrt the generations before deletion.
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