how to copy multiple PS into 1 PDS

luois8753 · New User Joined: 13 Apr 2010 Posts: 3 Location: China

Hi all, I want to copy around 200 existing PS into 1 new PDS(nonexistent). Could anyone please help me out? Thanks in advance.

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:44 am

Hello and welcome to the forum,

You need to provide something for people to use to help you. . .

What are the dsorg and lrecl of the 200 input files? What is the use of the pds?

One way to do what you want is to manually allocate a pds of the proper specifications (with no info provided, no suggestion can be made about this dataset) and then copy the existing files into a different member for each "input" fioe (unless some of them are to be ocmbined).

You could copy these manually (size permitting) or in a series of batch steps.

luois8753 · New User Joined: 13 Apr 2010 Posts: 3 Location: China

Hi Dick,
Thanks for your reply.
Actually, I need to archive all those files including 200GDGs (PS,FB, length 190) x 5levels and 8 PS file(PS,FB, length 80) into the new PDS.

Indeed, I can add a step in my JCL to create the new PDS.

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:20 am

Hello,

If the requirement is to archive these files suggest you consider using adrdssu. Using this, all of the files can be backed up in one "step" and the differences in the attributes will not be a problem. Any of the individual files could then be retrieved if needed.

Your storage management people should be able to show you some already existing adrdssu backups that you could clone for your use.

There are also several such topics in the forums - use the forum SEARCH above.

luois8753 · New User Joined: 13 Apr 2010 Posts: 3 Location: China

Thanks Dick for your quick response, I am checking now.

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:12 am

You're welcome - good luck

Someone will be here if there are questions,

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