If you don't pre-allocate then RECEIVE will allocate the target with the proper type.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2021 4:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Identifying PDS/E or PDS in IEBCOPY Unload On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 15:47:45 -0400, John Abell wrote: >Why not have them use TSO XMIT files like we do? > Will RECEIVE then allocate (NEW,CATLG) a data set with suitable DSNTYPE, SPACE, RECFM, LRECL, ... If the original PDS is large, is there a problem of overflow of a temporary data set? But does the OP control the unload process, or is he given an unloaded PDS(E) and tasked with reloading it? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
