I have migrated from one z/OS image to another several times completely satisfactorily.
- DFSMSDSS a group of data sets - TERSE the output - FTP to a small platform - Reverse the process to go the other direction Works like a champ. I don't recall any issues once I got going. I have PROCs and jobs to make it all easy. Charles On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:31:03 +0300, ITschak Mugzach <[email protected]> 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
