Re: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY?

2017-02-10 Thread Edward Gould
> On Feb 9, 2017, at 8:00 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht > wrote: > > Lizette Koehler wrote: > >> This is documented in the SAMPLIB (I am not at work so I think this is where >> it is) for HSM. ARC member name prefix name. > > Ah, this is it! I found it in ARCSTRST

Re: DCB NECESSSARY?

2017-02-09 Thread esmie moo
bre...@sita.co.za> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 11:32 AM Subject: Re: DCB NECESSSARY? Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>To Esmie, I see there are NO LRECL and BLKSIZE in this snippet. Seemed you >>can just let IDCAMS figure it out for you. >Oooh! 

Re: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY?

2017-02-09 Thread esmie moo
Thanks Todd and thanks to all who helped me out. From: "Burrell, Todd" <todd_burr...@csx.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 9:45 AM Subject: Re: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY? Here's a sample of the SYSIN for IDCAMS for MODEL - it

Re: DCB NECESSSARY?

2017-02-09 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>To Esmie, I see there are NO LRECL and BLKSIZE in this snippet. Seemed you >>can just let IDCAMS figure it out for you. >Oooh! This is tricky. Some utilities "figure it out for you", others don't, >yet others will override whatever you code, sometimes corrupting an

Re: DCB NECESSSARY?

2017-02-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 08:00:26 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >To Esmie, I see there are NO LRECL and BLKSIZE in this snippet. Seemed you can >just let IDCAMS figure it out for you. > Oooh! This is tricky. Some utilities "figure it out for you", others don't, yet others will override

Re: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY?

2017-02-09 Thread Burrell, Todd
) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2017 9:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY? Todd, I checked the doc SC26-7394

Re: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY?

2017-02-09 Thread esmie moo
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2017 7:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY? Gentle Readers, I would like to reorganise the HSM cds dsns - MCDS, BCDS & OCDS - using the IDCAMS EXPORT parm.  My question is when I preallocat

Re: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY?

2017-02-09 Thread esmie moo
Elardus, Thanks for the update.  It is very helpful.  I will try it out. From: Elardus Engelbrecht <elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 9:00 AM Subject: Re: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY? Lizette Koehler

Re: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY?

2017-02-09 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Lizette Koehler wrote: > This is documented in the SAMPLIB (I am not at work so I think this is where > it is) for HSM. ARC member name prefix name. Ah, this is it! I found it in ARCSTRST member, part COMPRESS. Thanks Lizette! I never used that little gem when I was a HSM admin. And the

Re: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY?

2017-02-09 Thread Lizette Koehler
bject: Re: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY? > > esmie moo wrote: > > >I would like to reorganise the HSM cds dsns - MCDS, BCDS & OCDS - using > >the IDCAMS EXPORT parm. My question is when I preallocate the dsn to which I > want to export to do I need to specify the LRECL & B

Re: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY?

2017-02-09 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
esmie moo wrote: >I would like to reorganise the HSM cds dsns - MCDS, BCDS & OCDS - using the >IDCAMS EXPORT parm.   >My question is when I preallocate the dsn to which I want to export to do I >need to specify the LRECL & BLKSIZE? The manuals are indeed not clear what the LRECL and BLKSIZE

Re: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY?

2017-02-09 Thread Burrell, Todd
] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2017 7:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY? Gentle Readers, I would like to reorganise the HSM cds dsns - MCDS, BCDS & OCDS - using the IDCAMS EXPORT parm.  My question is when I preallocate the dsn to which I

Re: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY?

2017-02-09 Thread Lizette Koehler
y 09, 2017 5:42 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY? > > Gentle Readers, > I would like to reorganise the HSM cds dsns - MCDS, BCDS & OCDS - using the > IDCAMS EXPORT parm. My question is when I preallocate the dsn to which I want > to exp

Subject : DCB NECESSSARY?

2017-02-09 Thread esmie moo
Gentle Readers, I would like to reorganise the HSM cds dsns - MCDS, BCDS & OCDS - using the IDCAMS EXPORT parm.  My question is when I preallocate the dsn to which I want to export to do I need to specify the LRECL & BLKSIZE? Here is a part of the job: //STEP1     EXEC PGM=IEFBR14