To summarize:
1. Not everything can be copied between PDS and PDSE (and vice versa).
Notable examples are program objects, long member names, PDSE v2 member
versions, etc.
2. Despite other possible options there is no harm to read from PDSU to
original PO dataset flavour and then optionally copy it to desired/other
flavour. Having in mind restrictions described above.
Am I missing something?
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Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 30.07.2021 o 02:37, Billy Ashton pisze:
Steve, this is from the IEBCOPY doc:
A load module from an unload data set cannot be reloaded into a PDSE
as a program object. The load modules should be reloaded into a
partitioned data set and then the partitioned data set should be
copied to a PDSE to convert the unloaded load module into a program
object.
This means if a loadlib PDS is unloaded by IEBCOPY, it cannot be
loaded directly back into a PDSE as executable modules. I haven't
found the doc on it, but it is my understanding that a PDS cannot
contain program objects, so if a PDSE is unloaded by IEBCOPY, it
cannot be loaded directly back into a PDS.
Or am I misreading something here? Don't forget that I am working only
with the unloaded file sent to me via FTP, and I do not have the
original PDS or PDSE available to me to do things like a 3.3 copy.
B
Steve Smith wrote on 7/29/2021 18:31:
Where did you get that notion? IEBCOPY can indeed load into a
dataset of a
different type than the source. Only exception I know of is from a PDSE
with long aliases.
I'd think your "backup plan" (albeit my first plan), would be to
unload the
file into a PDSE and not worry about it until something goes wrong.
sas
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 6:07 PM Billy Ashton <bill00ash...@gmail.com>
wrote:
These are solution files that the vendor sends to us, so we have no
control of what to do. They tell us that the target is a PDS or PDSE,
but I was just looking for a backup method to try and ensure that what
they say matches the file. As I'm sure you know, if they unloaded a PDS
file with load modules, you can't take the unloaded file and then
try to
load it into a PDSE. Likewise, if a PDSE with program objects was
unloaded, you can't load it into a standard PDS.
Billy
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