This may be a stupid suggestion, but why not just restore the data to spare volume(s), and then recreate the dump on disk with the same dataset name as the current tape (rerun the dump)? Since the COPYDUMP command does not seem to be a good option, I'd just try to recreate the dump in another way if it was that important to move it.
C. Todd Burrell Senior z/OS Systems Programmer ITSO (404) 498-3299 (404) 723-2017 (cell) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chicklon, Tom Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 7:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Copy DSS Dump File to DASD Thanks Scott. Going forward, when DSS creates the new dump data sets on DASD, there's no problem. I was only trying to copy previous back ups to DISK, which apparently can't be done. Tom ------------------------------------------- > I think I'm out of luck, but wanted to verify first. We're z/OS 1.7. > > We've had a number of small DSS DUMP files written to tape that I want > to move to DISK. Unfortunately, it seems that the dump files on tape > get created with a block size of about 64K, and from the DSS manual: > > The COPYDUMP command cannot change the block size of the DFSMSdss dump data > set. If you are copying a dump data set to a DASD device, the source block > size must be small enough to fit on the target device. > > Is there no way to copy these DSS dump files to disk other than > restoring the files (renaming them of course) and backing them up again? > > Tom Chicklon Possibly you may want to investigate the DD parameter BLKSZLIM, however it would need to be honored by the invoked program/utility, I believe. Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
