As far as I know, the supported method to copy dumps is using IPCS copy dump.
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/topic/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ieac500/cpydump.htm http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r13/topic/com.ibm.zos.r13.ieac500/cpydump.htm Copy dump can be invoked by batch jcl or via the IPCS dialog 3.2 -Nick Jones z/OS Service Aids/IPCS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN