JCL alternative to 'I SMF'

Depsidynamic · New User Joined: 04 Feb 2012 Posts: 3 Location: USA

Is there an alternative to using the 'I SMF' cmd in sdsf? Trying to use SMF to switch to a new dataset and close the old one.

Robert Sample · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 4:38 am

There's a console command to do the switch.

Depsidynamic · New User Joined: 04 Feb 2012 Posts: 3 Location: USA

Is there a CA product that will do it?

Robert Sample · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:51 pm

That would be a question for the CA support web site. There's so many CA products and CA would be vastly better at telling you what their various software products can do.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:53 pm

if You' d tell the whole requirement maybe You might get better replies

Depsidynamic · New User Joined: 04 Feb 2012 Posts: 3 Location: USA

Found it, CA ACF2 uses command 'ACFServe SWitch SMF' to do the same as I SMF.

Enrico - Need to dump the smf dataset but the active one needs to be switched to a alternative data set first before you can dump.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 9:38 pm

it does not look like a <smarter> alternative, just a different command
again if You told us the full requirement You would get better suggestions

David Robinson · Active User Joined: 21 Dec 2011 Posts: 199 Location: UK

Why do you need to use a different command when you already have one that does what you want?

If you need to do it in batch, you can run SDSF in batch.