Graeme, Have you called CA to best use the support money your company is paying? ;-)
If they don't have any better ideas, this should do: There are both full-screen (panel) VMSCHED commands and linemode commands to rename scheduled requests. Moving requests is more complicated. Again, CA may have better ideas, but this is what I'd do. No guarantees, YMMV. The VM:Schedule database is a flat file on VMSCHED's 1B0 disk: Filename Filetype VMSCHED IRBDB The format is documented in a CA manual (used to be in the "Generalized Report Writer Guide"). You may want to try copying that database to a different CMS-formatted minidisk on the new system and on the copy, delete all but a couple requests that you want to try on the new system. Bring up VMSCHED on the new system and see what happens. If it doesn't work, call CA. I think it will work. If it does work, then provided you can tolerate a VMSCHED outage on the first system, shut down VMSCHED there, copy the "VMSCHED IRBDB" file to a backup name (e.g. VMSCHED -1IRBDB) with OLDDATE as a backup in case things go poorly, then copy VMSCHED IRBDB to another disk where you can work (leaving VMSCHED down). On that "other" disk, XEDIT the VMSCHED IRBDB, place an 'X' in the XEDIT prefix area of each line you want to stay in the current system to "exclude" that line. When you are done, the only lines showing should be the requests to be moved to the new system. Enter the commands: TOP, then PUTD * NEWSYS IRBDB A [that puts all the displayed lines into NEWSYS IRBDB, deleting them from this file] then: FFILE OLDSYS IRBDB A [that saves all the remaining lines for the old system into the OLDSYS IRBDB file.] COPYFILE the new OLDSYS IRBDB A to the old system's VMSCHED 1B0 disk (with REPLACE, after all you should still have the "VMSCHED -1IRBDB" file there, right?). Then bring up that VMSCHED on the old system. Then copy the NEWSYS IRBDB file to the hew systems' VMSCHED 1B0 disk as VMSCHED IRBDB and bring up that VMSCHED. Not too painful. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. "Graeme Moss" <[email protected]> Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <[email protected]> 01/15/2009 03:12 PM Please respond to "Graeme Moss" <[email protected] DU> To [email protected] cc Subject VM:Schedule utility G'day, does any-one have utilities that can a a) rename VM:Sched requests b) extract VM:Sched requests from system a and add them into system b tia Graeme The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. All messages sent to and from this e-mail address may be monitored as permitted by applicable law and regulations to ensure compliance with our internal policies and to protect our business. E-mails are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free as they can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by e-mail.
