Multiple choice technology mainframe

The advantages of GDG are.....

  1. It will maintain all generation of data sets

  2. It will catalog older generation files

  3. No need of change the JCL every time when we submit.

  4. None of these

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Generation Data Groups (GDGs) let a mainframe program reference a rolling set of related datasets (e.g., daily backups) collectively, automatically maintaining all the generations under one base name. Because JCL can reference a GDG by relative generation number (like +1 or 0), you don't need to edit the JCL each time a new generation is created, which is the main operational advantage.