In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/22/2007
at 07:22 AM, George Dranes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>We recently copied many of our RECFM=U PDSEs (no aliases) to other
>volumes and I used an old job inadvertantly which used COPYMOD
>rather than COPY or COPYGRP. Everything appears to have worked fine
>(RC=0) but I was curious if COPYMOD is just converted to COPY in
>these situations where its PDSE to PDSE or does COPYMOD actually do
>anything special on PDSEs. I know if you copy a non recfm=U PDS and
>use COPYMOD you receive an 8 so I'm assuming since I received a 0
>I'm probably fine. Thanks for any help.
COPYMOD is intended for load modules; I would expect it to work
correctly for program objects. However, if you use COPYMOD on a
RECFM=U data set that has anything but load modules or program
objects, I would expect it to make a dog's breakfast of the contents.
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