How to copy VSAM file between different environments.

rainbow_enn · New User Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 2 Location: china

I need to copy one VSAM file between different MF enviroments. There is shared DASD between these two enviroment, and I can't use xmit.

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:28 pm

Hello,

On the original system:
Get the original DEFINE control statements and place them in a member on shared dasd. REPRO the data into a qsam file that is on shared dasd.

On the "new" system:
DEFINE the vsam file and all indexes. Load the data using IDCAMS or sort.

You have migrated the file to the new sysytem.

rainbow_enn · New User Joined: 17 Sep 2007 Posts: 2 Location: china

thanks a lot. Do you have the example for "copy vsam to qsam" and "load the qsam to vsam" ?

expat · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:53 pm

You can use IDCAMS EXPORT/IMPORT or IDCAMS REPRO to a flat file and then repro it into the new file, DFdss will work too, and so will FAVER (GVEXPORT / GVIMPORT) if you have it installed on your system.