How to copy the contents of a catalog: IDCAMS

  • Post category:Catalog
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A very short one, but regularly asked by my mentees: how to copy the contents of a catalog? Just use IDCAMS' REPRO facility, like you would for a regular VSAM dataset //COPYCAT   EXEC PGM=IDCAMS                            //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*                          //SYSIN    DD *                                       REPRO  INDATASET(CATALOG.MVSICFM.VD9ECAT) -                  OUTDATASET(SYS1.MSTRCTLG)    //Pierre G

Copy members from one PDS(E) to another using the IEBCOPY utility

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This JCL script shows how to copy members from one PDS library to another.  I have retained the input file being tape in the original JCL script for nostalgic reasons only; you will unlike ever use this nowadays. As unlikely, you will be allocating the output dataset on a specific volume, so normally you could omit the VOL=SER= clause as well. If you omit the S M= (SELECT MEMBER=) clauses, the entire content of the INDD input PDS will be copied to the OuTDD output PDS. //STEP01   EXEC PGM=IEBCOPY                   //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*                        //*INDOC     DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS1.ST006868.DOCLIB,LABEL=(06,SL), //*         VOL=SER=R6868A,UNIT=CTAPE                     //INDOC     DD DISP=SHR,DSN=YOUR.INPUT.LIBRARY //OUTDOC     DD DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),DSN=YOUR.OUTPUT.PDSLIB,  //         VOL=SER=DASD1A,UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(9600,(240,30,20)) //SYSIN    DD *                                     COPY INDD=INDOC,OUTDD=OUTDOC                        S M=MEMBER1                                          S M=MEMBER2                                         S M=OTHERMEM                                        S M=MEM4          THe IEBCOPY is a simple copy utility but it has many many options, of which you will only practically use a fraction. The application above I think is the one you will use in 99% of occasions. The DFDMDdfp Utilities manual sums all the options up.