> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg
>
> At 11:31 -0600 on 11/29/2011, Phil Sidler wrote about Alternative to
REPRO for VSAM RLS KSDS Merge:
>
> >Since IDCAMS REPRO does not support VSAM datasets in RLS mode (and
> >neither does SORT), is there another utility that could be coaxed to
> >perform the same function? I'd like to be able to copy/merge one
KSDS
> >to another replacing the records in the target dataset that have the
> >same keys as the records in the source dataset (and leaving the other
> >target dataset records) while the target dataset is being shared in
RLS
> >mode.
> >
> >TIA for suggestions
>
> Thinking outside the box, can you do an EXPORT of the dataset you want
to copy from? If so, you can
> then IMPORT while renaming it, use the copy to do the merge, and then
delete the copy.
I think the OP's problem is that the dataset to be copied INTO ("target"
dataset) is the one that's open in RLS mode. I didn't see explicit
mention of the RLS characteristics of the dataset to be copied FROM
("source" dataset).
-jc-
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