> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Mark Zelden > Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 3:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IEBCOPY - "MOVE" > > 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.
The last point isn't the least one... ! (Another point - design - is that when you have a tool that handles PDS members why restrict it to just copy (+rename) ? Moving should come naturally together with copy...) Best Regards Thomas Berg ___________________________________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS\RQM\IT Delivery SWEDBANK AB (Publ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
