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What is the version of Step?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:07 am
by ramesh4mainframes
I have 3 steps, in that step2 has abend. Then what is the version of Step 2?

The interviewer not mentioned whether it is in GDG or not.

Re: What is the version of Step?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:10 am
by dick scherrer
Hello,

These questions are getting worse and worse. . . :(

We are here to help, not try to teach when someone has no foundation at all. . .

Re: What is the version of Step?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:25 am
by fornanthakumar
Please post your question clearly. :D

Re: What is the version of Step?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 1:38 am
by steve-myers
ramesh4mainframes wrote:I have 3 steps, in that step2 has abend. Then what is the version of Step 2?

The interviewer not mentioned whether it is in GDG or not.
As others have stated, the question has no meaning. The mostly likely interpretation of "step" is a step in JCL. A step has no version. Another person suggested something about a GDG data set, possibly in this context:
//ASTEP    EXEC PGM=ABADPGM
//AGDG      DD  DISP=(NEW,CATLG),---,DSN=AGDG(+1)
This JCL will catalog the generation data set as AGDG.GggggV00. The "00" is the "version" of generation gggg. The value assigned to gggg depends on other data sets in the generation data group. Notice that I did not specify Vvv. This is because a new generation is always "version" 00. It might be that is the answer that was wanted.