Thanks for the confirmation Andrew, this is as I suspected. I guess we'll just have to wait for the tape data sets to roll off (they are all GDGs).
Tom Chicklon ------------------------------------------- Tom, I'm sorry, but there is no way that I know of to do that. Thanks, Andrew Wilt IBM DFSMSdss Architecture/Development ----------------------------------------------------- > 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