It is absolutely safe to use IEBCOPY COPY instead of COPYMOD to copy loadlibs with the same blocksize and geometry. As Mark also pointed out, it is faster (not as slow!!??!!) to copy rather than copymod. As far as ISPF copying load modules, I would be a bit hesitant. At one point, there was a limitation about copying members with aliases attached to them. You had to copy the base code and then without leaving the ISPF copy screen, copy the aliases. I found it was just safer to whip up a quick batch job to copy the loadlibs and leave ISPF out of the picture. That may have changed in the many moons since I looked at it, and I'm sure somebody will quickly correct me if this is no longer the case. :-)
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Dranes Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 9:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IEBCOPY question? Mark, So is it safe for me to continue to use IEBCOPY without copymod when copying LOADLIBS of the same blocksize and device type? I've seen differing opinions on the board. Another question I have is we occasionally use ISPF's copy option to copy a module from one library to another. I'm assuming it uses copy and not copymod unless the blksizes are different by default. Since our blksizes are set to 32760, will this not utilize the leftovers at the end of each track. Should I be using copymod instead for these individual modules? Thanks for everyone's help! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
