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. 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 10:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: user catalog question On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:09:03 -0600, Peter Ten Eyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a running z/OS 1.7 system with two user catalogs attached to the >master catalog. Call the first A and the second B. Catalog B has all the tape >entries I want. How can I get all the tapes entries in catalog B into catalog A. >When I am done I do not want any of the original catalog A tape entries, just >the tape entries from catalog B into catalog A. > I assume both catalogs have more than just tape entries and you don't want to use REPRO MERGECAT. I would use something like MCNVTCAT (which I still have a copy of) or the REXX version of it from the CBT (RCNVTCAT) to dump both catalogs and message the tape entry output from cat a into IDCAMS DELETE NSCR cards and delete everything but the IDCAMS DEFINE NVSAM tape entries from the cat b output and run those into cat a. Note that if using MCNVTCAT I think there is a limitation of 5 volumes that it creates per dsn in the DEFINE cards... so watch out for that. Search the archives for discussions of MCNVTCAT vs. RCNVTCAT and the reasons (like the one just mentioned) that IBM stopped distributing MCNVTCAT. 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
