Remember, that IEBCOPY has lots of examples and details on IBM.COM https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.idau100/iebcopy.htm
Unless specified, the examples will tell you exactly how to copy from a LibA to a LibB Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > esmie moo > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2019 10:37 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: COPYING PDS AND PDSE > > Thanks Seymour and thanks to all who responded to my post. > On Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 11:39:43 a.m. EDT, Seymour J Metz > <[email protected]> wrote: > > COPYMOD is for load module reblocking. There are no load modules in a PDSE. > Off the top of my head I don't even recall whether it is valid for program > objects. The COPY statement should work fine for PDSE. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of > esmie moo <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2019 9:15 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: COPYING PDS AND PDSE > > I want to copy the PDSE to another. I was told that COPYMOD was the > preferable parm when copying LOADLIBS. Is it okay just to use COPY? > On Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 8:09:09 a.m. EDT, Elardus Engelbrecht > <[email protected]> wrote: > > esmie moo wrote: > > >Are there special parms that I need to use in the copy PDS & PDSE'S? > > It depends. Do you want to copy all or specific members? > > > >For example if I want to copy a PDSE to another PDSE (some maybe LOADLIBS) > would the following be okay? > > PS: I have doctored your JCL sample for better readability! ;-) > > //COPYJCL1 EXEC PGM=IEBCOPY > //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* > //SYSUT3 DD UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(CYL,(50,50)) > //SYSUT4 DD UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(CYL,(50,50)) //INDD DD > DISP=OLD,DSN=MYDSN.CLIP.SHR //OUTDD DD DISP=OLD,DSN=MYDSN.CLIP.SHR.NEW > //SYSIN DD * > COPY INDD=INDD,OUTDD=OUTDD > /* > // > > > >Is the COPY command sufficient? > > It should be, a$$uming you want to copy ALL members without any reblocking > with COPYMOD and that both datasets RECFM, LRECL, BLKSIZE, etc. are the same. > > Perhaps you can drop SYSUT3 and SYSUT4 and add this one: > > //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* > > Are you getting any error message(s)? > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
