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OK boys and girls.....er.....um......ladies and gents, et al.
Anyhowseways..........I have two, count 'em two z/OS 1.7 installation
tapes from IBM. I would like to first make of copy of both before I do
anything with them. I've dumped them and they are SL tapes, with lots of
multi files. 29 on volume 1 and 953 on volume 2.
I seem to be having an Alzheimer's moment. Heck, it's Friday the 13th,
right?! So I know I want to use IEBGENER for the copy, but is there any
way of NOT having to code each dataset name of each file for each
input/output JCL DD statement?
Or maybe another utility, like FATS/FATAR, SLANAL, SLANCOPY, TAPEMAP,
SAS, etc. that would just allow me to code the two input volsers and
tell it the # of files each has? Then just give it two scratch tapes for
output?
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Something I've done in the past is to slap together a simple Assembler
macro using PUNCH statements to create JCL with substitutions based on
parameters. Then I edit a TAPEMAP listing to build the invocation
statements, assemble the result and edit the SYSPUNCH output to insert
JOB statements, etc. With that many files on the second tape, you might
consider using (UGH!!) IEHMOVE to make the copy.
The TAPECOPY utility, from the CBT site, also does an EXCELLENT job of
copying a tape. I recommend it highly!!!
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