I'm on z/OS 1.9, and I ran a REPRO MERGECAT on one high level that had over 225,000 entries, and it took a few hours on a weekend. I ran separate jobs by second level, and ran about 500 separate jobs single-threaded to get the job done.
I'd recommend just using REPRO MERGECAT during off hours to do the move unless the number is over 50,000 or so. The jobs usually run pretty quick, and I would see no reason to buy a product just to do this move... C. Todd Burrell, PMP, MCP Lead z/OS Systems Programmer ITSO (404) 723-2017 (Cell) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Amerigo Baldassarri Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 3:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Moving Catalog Entries Mainstar's Catalog RecoveryPlus (a comprehensive ICF catalog utility toolkit) contains a feature called "Mergecat While Open" that will allow the user to dynamically move catalog entries from one ICF catalog to another whilst in use. www.mainstar.com Regards Amerigo Baldassarri -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin, Mike Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Moving Catalog Entries All, I am looking for a way to move ICF catalog entries from one catalog to another. I have thousands of entries to move because we are restructuring our catalogs. I know I can use REPRO MERGECAT, but we have MANY datasets that are in-use on this production system. Is there a better way than REPRO MERGECAT for moving production catalog entries on a live system? I would like to be able to do these moves during our normal production window (no additional downtime). Any thoughts/ideas are greatly appreciated. Mike Martin </PRE>This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. Personal emails are restricted by policy of the State Employees' Credit Union (SECU). Therefore SECU specifically disclaims any responsibility or liability for any personal information or opinions of the author expressed in this email. </P> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
