Thanks Scott. Going forward, when DSS creates the new dump data sets on DASD, there's no problem. I was only trying to copy previous back ups to DISK, which apparently can't be done.
Tom ------------------------------------------- > 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 Possibly you may want to investigate the DD parameter BLKSZLIM, however it would need to be honored by the invoked program/utility, I believe. Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
