Seeing that it is complaining that SPACE wasn't specified, my first guess would be that your ACS routines are ignoring the UNIT=HCRT and assigning the dataset to a DASD volume, rather than a tape.
=============================================== Wayne Driscoll Omegamon DB2 L3 Support/Development wdrisco(AT)us.ibm.com =============================================== Howard Rifkind <rifki...@emigrant.com> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> 03/13/2009 05:03 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: NEED SOME HELP WITH IEBCOPY Can't seem to get this to work. Can anyone see what I'm missing? Seems that the OUT is the issue. IEF344I E18823X STEP01 OUT - ALLOCATION FAILED DUE TO DATA FACILITY SYSTEM ERROR IGD17045I SPACE NOT SPECIFIED FOR ALLOCATION OF DATA SET E18823.CAI.COMSERV.PTF.QO94053 //STEP01 EXEC PGM=IEBCOPY,REGION=0M //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //* //IN DD DSN=SYSESB.CAI.CAICCS.R11SP08.QO94053.PTFFILE, // DISP=(SHR,KEEP) //* //OUT DD UNIT=HCRT, // DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE), // DSN=E18823.CAI.COMSERV.PTF.QO94053, // LABEL=EXPDT=99365, // VOL=(,,,20) //* //SYSUT3 DD UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(CYL,(1,1)) //* >>> Raymond Noal <raymond.n...@hds.com> 3/13/2009 5:31 PM >>> Howard, First, if by 'flat files' you mean sequential files, then I don't think IEBCOPY is want you want. You should use IEBGENER to copy flat/sequential files. But, for IEBCOPY, here's an example: //S1 EXEC PGM=IEBCOPY //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //IN DD DISP=SHR,DSN=XXX //OUT DD DISP=SHR,DSN=XXX.NEW //SYSIN DD * C I=IN,O=OUT /* // The 'IN' DD statement defines the input data set. The 'OUT' DD statement defines the output data set. If you want to assign the output to a tape file then you will have to code UNIT=TAPE (or whatever you define you tape drives as using an esoteric name) and you may also need a VOL= parameter as well. When you copy an input PDS to an output sequential file, IEBCOPY 'unloads' the PDS to the sequential file. Going in the opposite direction, IEBCOPY will 'load' the sequential file back into a PDS. If you do use IEBGENER, the SYSUT1 DD statement defines the input file and the SYSUT2 statement defines the output file. IEBGENER will copy the input file to the output file without any control cards (SYSIN DD) and the output file will have the same file attributes as the input file. HTH HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS Raymond E. Noal Senior Technical Engineer Office: (408) 970 - 7978 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 2:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: NEED SOME HELP WITH IEBCOPY Need some help with IEBCOPY, I have a number of flat files which I want to copy to tape and then back down to DASD on another system. Would anyone out on the list have a sample job to do this which the are willing to share? Any help would be appreciated...Friday night and I would like to go home before midnight. Thanks. _____________ LEGAL NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this E-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately, then delete this message and empty from your trash. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu 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 lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html _____________ LEGAL NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. Access to this E-mail by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an addressee, any disclosure or copying of the contents of this E-mail or any action taken (or not taken) in reliance on it is unauthorized and may be unlawful. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately, then delete this message and empty from your trash. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu 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 lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html