On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:49:11 +0200, Thomas Berg <[email protected]> wrote:

>Plus that the point of IEBCOPY - at least for me - would be performance.  It 
>happens that I need
> to move a selected group of members repeatedly between many (and large) 
> PDS(E)'s.   

So you actually have a good business case!  

I posted the question because I was asked by an off shore person.  To them it 
seemed
logical that there should be a *standard* utility to do this and I can see why 
they think
that.  I've never really thought about it but after I was asked I could think of
many times it would have come in handy.  At my current shop, and some others I 
have been
at, changes that go in during a maintenance window are preferred to have batch 
jobs
pre-staged.  So instead of step 10 in the implementation plan being "use ISPF 
to copy /
move / rename PDS members from a to b" it should be in a batch job.  It ends up
being quicker and less error prone.    

Mark
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