Utility to copy records from BDAM file to PS file

ARJUN · New User Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Chennai

Dear All,

Is there any utility to copy records from BDAM file to a PS file like IEBCOPY?

Bharanidharan · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:27 pm

I am not sure if a better way exists, but during conversion from BDAM to VSAM, we used ADRDSSU to "dump" the whole file (to any dataset) and then "restore" it. The advantage of using ADRDSSU is it would take care of device compatibility, because that was the major hurdle we faced while using IBM utilities for copying records.

ARJUN · New User Joined: 16 Nov 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Chennai

Thank you Bharani, but you should have RACF authorization for using ADRDSSU utility right?

Bharanidharan · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:17 pm

I believe so. It is supervised by DFSMSDSS; general user access would usually be provided, unless specific installations demand otherwise.