It is a long story to tell, but we plan to do development outside of the mainframe and only test on it. This means that we need to create execution environment that may not exist on next IPL.
*| **Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software **|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Z/OS, zLinux and IBM I **| * *|* *Email**: [email protected] **|* *Mob**: +972 522 986404 **|* *Skype**: ItschakMugzach **|* *Web**: www.Securiteam.co.il **|* בתאריך יום ו׳, 17 באוק׳ 2025 ב-13:04 מאת David Spiegel < [email protected]>: > Hi ITschak AMV"SH, > If you DFSMSdss DUMP (or FDR), TRS and FTP your Datasets to the new > mainframe, what is the benefit of this? > (That is, manually recreating these Datasets should not be necessary.) > Please post the code. > > שבת שלום > > Thanks and regards, > David > > On 2025-10-17 05:31, ITschak Mugzach wrote: > > This is a subject that was discussed here several times. As we (must) > > prepare to discontinue our current mainframe (IBM stop licensing zPDT) > and > > be able to port to a different mainframe, we developed a program to > > retrieve dataset allocation information and create the jcl to recreate > it. > > > > The trick is to run ftp on the local host and using CD and DIR commands. > > The output is written to dataset allocated to OUTPUT dd. > > > > If you like, I can post the code. > > > > ITschak Mugzach > > *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring > > for z/OS, x/Linux & IBM I **| z/VM coming soon * > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
