ZERODIR in IEBCOPY utility

udaykiran · New User Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 6 Location: chennai

Hi,
I wanted to know what is ZERODIR used for in Iebcopy utility.
The control card has:

ZERODIR OUTDD=PDS
COMPRESS OUTDD=PDS,LIST=NO

for the utility.

Thanks,
Uday

Prandip · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:27 pm

As you may have already surmised, neither ZERODIR nor COMPRESS are valid IEBCOPY commands. It seems that you are running an IEBCOPY replacement program, such as PDSFAST or PDSMAN. Check with the documentation for your specific product.

sivatechdrive · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 4:49 pm

Hi Uday

this option is available with

PDSFAST:
DDNAME DUMMY:
NPDSFAST..................Never invoke PDSFAST
NIEBCOPY..................Never invoke IEBCOPY
SEADEBUG..................More dump information and SNAPs
Control statements:
RECOVER OUTDD=DDNAME - Recover deleted members
VERIFY INDD=DDNAME { LIST=YES | NO } - CHECK FOR I/O ERRORS
ZERODIR OUTDD=DDNAME - Erase directory
DIRSIZE OUTDD=DDNAME,BLOCKS= +XX | -XX
SELECT GROUP=(A/,IEF/,**DAVE*)

Click 4 more details
www.planetmvs.com/overhead/refsummary.html

Regards
Siva

udaykiran · New User Joined: 04 Mar 2004 Posts: 6 Location: chennai

Thanks Siva and Prandip,

I have already seen that link Siva, I was a bit confused as to whether that will initilaize the dataset or completely erase/delete it.

ZERODIR OUTDD=DDNAME - Erase directory

Thanks,
Uday.