copy all members in a roscoe library to an ISPF PDS

joespagg · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2022 2:17 am

Anyone know how to copy all members in a roscoe library to an ISPF PDS?

Pedro · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2022 9:16 am

I am not familiar with Roscoe... but I think you would start with some Roscoe utility to get data out of it.

There were references to something when googling for "utility to export roscoe dataset"

dneufarth · Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2022 4:52 pm

Try BROADCOM

community.broadcom.com/mainframesoftware/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MessageKey=a582a402-7928-4dbf-9542-780be1613a4c&CommunityKey=93ad627a-698e-497e-8f26-03a509fc73f6&tab=digestviewer

Pete Wilson · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 6:31 pm

Haven't heard of Roscoe for about 24yrs! I recall we had it as a TSO alternative for Developers as it was much more CPU efficient. Can't remember now, but I think it was based on either DA or VSAM datasets? Possibly used Panvalet libraries?

Joerg.Findeisen · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 6:47 pm

Willy Jensen · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:05 pm

Certainly not based on Panvalet, it was DA.
Roscoe was originally from Applied Data Research (ADR) who also had Librarian, which was a competitor to Panvalet.
Ah, Roscoe, that bring back fond memories, it was the first product I was responsible for, back in the 70s.

Garry Carroll · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 9:43 pm

Did an exercise to move from Roscoe to PDS about 16 years ago - but the jobs I still have were to copy single members using PGM=ROSCOPY , so I probably had to do members individually.

I no longer have documentation on ROSCOPY utility.

Garry.

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 10:35 pm

a plain google search with roscopy roscoe broadcom returned
community.broadcom.com/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MID=735113

dneufarth · Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 11:46 pm

Enrico,

leads to same thread that I posted a few days ago.

Pedro · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2022 12:33 pm

I would pursue with Broadcom, but they may not like you getting out of using Roscoe.

As the absolute last resort, I would use the ADRDSSU utility and use the PRINT statement to get a hex dump of the members (I assume it is not somehow encrypted). Then you can re-constitute the members. (yeah, this is very error prone)