You are correct about the speed, if you were to use IDCAMS. However, T-REX is exponentially faster and we have a NOMERGECAT option, should you wish to leave the entries in the SOURCE catalog.
Larry Crilley Dino-Software Corporation 800.480.DINO 412.366.3566 www.dino-software.com Dino-Software Utilities T-REX - Superior catalog management tool inclusive of HSM & Tape audits REORGadon - First REORG While-OPEN tool for HSM Teradon - First ever OnLine REPRO MERGECAT utility Xtinct - DASD Data purge RTD - DASD Real Time Defrag DAL - Analysis for Legato in an easy to view format -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: user catalog question On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:16:28 -0500, Larry Crilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was thinking along the same lines. Do you have any vendor tools? The >T-REX LISTCAT can scan a catalog, look for TAPE entries only, and build >IDCAMS DEFINE, DELETE, or DELETE NOSCRATCH cards. In your case, you would >want to build the DELETE NOSCRATCH cards to remove the entries from catalog >A. > >From there, you could just REPRO MERGECAT the tape entries from CAT B into >CAT A. > Yes... but since you have to do each entry individually, I think a DEFINE NVSAM would be quicker... and leave the entires in catalog B in tact. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
