Its funny that you should mention the ISPF issue. A few years ago someone at our site (I won't name names) used p;3;3 to copy the LINKLIB. There is now an option on the copy screen to "Process member aliases" which by default is not checked (and in this case wasn't checked). Needless to say, the next IPL didn't go real smooth. There were alot of aliases in the LINKLIB including many of the I/O system modules missing. It was real UGLY!
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:13:38 -0600, Pommier, Rex R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It is absolutely safe to use IEBCOPY COPY instead of COPYMOD to copy >loadlibs with the same blocksize and geometry. As Mark also pointed >out, it is faster (not as slow!!??!!) to copy rather than copymod. As >far as ISPF copying load modules, I would be a bit hesitant. At one >point, there was a limitation about copying members with aliases >attached to them. You had to copy the base code and then without >leaving the ISPF copy screen, copy the aliases. I found it was just >safer to whip up a quick batch job to copy the loadlibs and leave ISPF >out of the picture. That may have changed in the many moons since I >looked at it, and I'm sure somebody will quickly correct me if this is >no longer the case. :-) > >Rex > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of George Dranes >Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 9:00 AM >To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: IEBCOPY question? > >Mark, > >So is it safe for me to continue to use IEBCOPY without copymod when >copying LOADLIBS of the same blocksize and device type? I've seen >differing opinions on the board. Another question I have is we >occasionally use ISPF's copy option to copy a module from one library to >another. I'm assuming it uses copy and not copymod unless the blksizes >are different by default. Since our blksizes are set to 32760, will >this not utilize the leftovers at the end of each track. Should I be >using copymod instead for these individual modules? Thanks for >everyone's help! > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
