Bob, I think SMCOPY requires the session manager. In these situations I use REPRO. With REPRO you can specify the data set name (via INDATASET) or the input file (via INFILE). So you specify whatever you like on an ALLOCATE command and then specify that file name on the REPRO command.
Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw 'Dance like no one is watching. Encrypt like everyone is.' -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: 14 April 2021 00:57 To: [email protected] Subject: Using SMCOPY to copy to an uncatalogued DS I'm writing a REXX to copy a bunch of datasets. The input datasets are catalogued; the output is to be uncatalogued and written to a particular DASD volume. I figure to use LMCOPY for PDS members, and for flat files - since ISPF doesn't seem to have an analogous command for them - SMCOPY. But wait: Where's the SMCOPY syntax to specify an uncatalogued dataset on a DASD volume? I don't see it. There's something about sending the dataset to a "stream", but I don't know what a stream is. Is it a DD? Probably not; I'm sure IBM knows how to spell "DD". --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* How strange that there was once a time when Americans philosophized hotly, in the passionate assurance that their ideas would have practical consequences! And oddly enough, they did. Now we just shrug and cough up the [tax] money, with the resignation of an old New Yorker facing a mugger. -Joseph Sobran */ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
