What is a GDG? Why do we go for a GDG ? utility used to
create GDG?
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Answer / duraiece2001
GDG:
Generation Data Groups are a group of data sets which are
related to each other chronologically and functionally.
Utility used to create GDG is IDCAMS
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Answer / dev
We will go for GDG when we want a no of verions of the same
file and somtimes the output in a consolidated manner.
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Answer / eswar
Generation Data Group(GDG) , mainly we go for the GDG for
daily or monthly report generation and keep the version in
such a case we can prefer GDG, for creating GDG we have to
use the Utility IDCAMS.
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