On 12/9/2023 5:24 AM, Steve Estle wrote:
Seasons Greetings all,
I know this might sound like a strange request, but we are exploring what if any options
there are to migrate load libraries from PDSE (version 1 or 2) back to traditional basic
PDS's. It appears this is highly restricted based on my experiences trying to perform
via IEBCOPY and ISPF 3.3 (which just involkes IEBCOPY under the covers)? Any
thoughts/experiences on ways to do this or is it just one of those once you are there the
"train don't go in reverse" situations?
It's a smooth transition if you're copying program object format 2 or
lower. Anything over that and you might be losing something important.
In some cases, you will get warnings or errors from the binder (which is
called by IEBCOPY to rebind the modules).
The binder produces a save operation summary that tells you which format
is used. For example:
|SAVE OPERATION SUMMARY:
|
| MEMBER NAME modname
| LOAD LIBRARY data.set.name
| PROGRAM TYPE PROGRAM OBJECT(FORMAT 5) <-- here!
| VOLUME SERIAL volser
| DISPOSITION ADDED NEW
| TIME OF SAVE 15.50.30 NOV 29, 2023
After the fact, you can use AMBLIST LISTLOAD to show this information to
you:
|MODULE SSI: NONE
|APFCODE: 00000000
|RMODE: ANY
|LONGPARM: NO
|PO FORMAT: 5 <-- here!
|OS COMPAT LEVEL: z/OSV2R1
|XPLINK: NO
Sadly, the ISPF member list for a program object library does not
display PO format along with the other load module attributes. If it
did, you could sort on that field and easily see where you stand.
It shows SSI which these days useless info (IMHO) but not PO format
which is important. They never improve anything without an RFE asking
for it. [sigh]
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Edward E. Jaffe
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https://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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