On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:01:54 -0500, Graham Hobbs wrote: > >Found another JCL example and notes in another doc .. glaring errors in >SYSUT2! SYSUT2 has to have exactly the same attributes as SYSUT1 i.e. RECFM, >LRECL, BLKSIZE, allocated CYLS, EXTENTS and BLOCKS, don't use RLSE and it >works. > >//STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEBCOPY >//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* >//SYSUT1 DD DSN=CONRAD.CBL.PGMS,DISP=SHR >//SYSUT2 DD DSN=CONRADZ.CBL.PGMS.BK120105,DISP=(NEW,CATLG), >// UNIT=SYSDA,VOL=SER=VPWRKA,SPACE=(CYL,(60,1,200)), >// DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=6160) >//SYSIN DD * > COPY INDD=SYSUT1,OUTDD=SYSUT2 > I hope SPACE, at least, needn't be "exactly the same", merely at least as great, or even just great enough to hold the members being copied.
And I believe that if you leave RECFM, LRECL, and BLKSIZE blank IEBCOPY will fill them in from INDD. (Or am I thinking only of IEBGENER?) And if SMS is being nice to you, you needn't specify VOL=SER. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

