IEBCOPY utility

 IEBCOPY Utility.

Situation- Whenever there is requirement to copy a PDS to another PDS  or copying a member to another pds or exclude some members from one PDS and copying remaining all members for backup purpose then we will use IEBCOPY utility.

1)      To copy all the members of one PDS to another PDS.

Here we have to define to Dataset one is as input and another is as output.

Below I have taken “Avinash.copy.pds” as my input dataset and my output dataset is “Avinash.new4.pds”.

In the control card i.e in sysin dd * I have given the instruction that my input dataset name is defined by sysut3 and my output dataset is defined by sysut4.

This will copy all my input dataset member into my output dataset.

           1) One very important thing is before copying you should check the record length both input and      output dataset  Record length must be same.

     2)     If the record length is not same then you will get maxcc=0 but members will not copy.

     3)  Always write outdd as first and indd as second else will give you maxcc=08.

 

 

    Now to copy a selective member from one pds to another pds.

For this requirement just add one line in your control card i.e. select member=(mem1,mem2,etc)

It will select only that particular member in your output dataset.

      To exclude a particular member from input dataset to copy then just use 

   Exclude member=(mem1,mem2,etc).

   It will not copy only these members and rest of member will copy.

Can we use both exclude and select statement in one program?

No you can’t will throws an error maxcc=12.