Tom, I'm sorry, but there is no way that I know of to do that. Thanks,
Andrew Wilt IBM DFSMSdss Architecture/Development IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> wrote on 07/05/2007 11:28:50 AM: > I think I'm out of luck, but wanted to verify first. We're z/OS 1.7. > > We've had a number of small DSS DUMP files written to tape that I want to > move to DISK. Unfortunately, it seems that the dump files on tape get > created with a block size of about 64K, and from the DSS manual: > > The COPYDUMP command cannot change the block size of the DFSMSdss dump data > set. If you are copying a dump data set to a DASD device, the source block > size must be small enough to fit on the target device. > > Is there no way to copy these DSS dump files to disk other than restoring > the files (renaming them of course) and backing them up again? > > Tom Chicklon > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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