How to copy the contents of a catalog: IDCAMS

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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