Bruce Black wrote:

John, I guess my complaint/argument is that IEBGENER is an IBM standard tape copy utility. Data on a tape is sequential (PS), regardless if put there by another IBM utility like IEBCOPY, IEBGENER, etc. I'm sure I've used GENER in the past to copy RECFM=U files?
The reason that DFSMSdss backup datasets are unique is that the tape label says RECFM=U,BLKSIZE=32760. However, the actual data blocks are as large as 64K.

AFAIK, ADRDSSU says BLKSIZE=0, not 32760.

However it is *no longer true*. At current z/OS levels real blocksize (64k) is claimed.

I didn't try (I'm going to do it), but I believe it is now possible to use ICEGENER to copy dss dumps properly.


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