1) Get a list of the VSAM files (clusters only) on the source system. 2) Issued IDCAMS DEF Cluster ... RECATALOG with appropriate pointers to the "new" VVDS's. IIRC the only thing you need is a space parameter (and I'm not even sure about that).
It's all in AMS for CATALOGS.... The other choice is df/DSS (or FDR) logical dump/restore HTH, <snip> Hello all, We currently have a z/OS V1.7 that we will be migrating to V1.11. I have 169 volumes that I want to copy to the z/OS V1.11 system and use for testing purposes. These volumes contain our Quality Assurance datasets both VSAM and Sequential. We are not sharing disks or catalogs for obvious reasons. We have a usercat set up on the V1.11 system that contains the alias of these files. I can do a disk to disk copy of the volumes to the V1.11 system then vary those volumes online to the V1.11 system and vary offline to the V1.7 system. Getting the volumes to the V1.11 system for testing isn't the issue. What I need to do is catalog the files that are on those volumes to the V1.11 user catalog. I can do the sequential files via ISPF if I need to, but I'm not sure of the vsam files especially those files that span volumes and not just extents. Has anyone had any experience with cataloging multi extent or multi volume vsam files in this fashion? Any help would really be appreciated, and any gotcha's would be appreciated also </snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html