Steve, this is from the IEBCOPY doc:
A load module from an unload data set cannot be reloaded into a PDSE as
a program object. The load modules should be reloaded into a partitioned
data set and then the partitioned data set should be copied to a PDSE to
convert the unloaded load module into a program object.
This means if a loadlib PDS is unloaded by IEBCOPY, it cannot be loaded
directly back into a PDSE as executable modules. I haven't found the doc
on it, but it is my understanding that a PDS cannot contain program
objects, so if a PDSE is unloaded by IEBCOPY, it cannot be loaded
directly back into a PDS.
Or am I misreading something here? Don't forget that I am working only
with the unloaded file sent to me via FTP, and I do not have the
original PDS or PDSE available to me to do things like a 3.3 copy.
B
Steve Smith wrote on 7/29/2021 18:31:
Where did you get that notion? IEBCOPY can indeed load into a dataset of a
different type than the source. Only exception I know of is from a PDSE
with long aliases.
I'd think your "backup plan" (albeit my first plan), would be to unload the
file into a PDSE and not worry about it until something goes wrong.
sas
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 6:07 PM Billy Ashton <[email protected]> wrote:
These are solution files that the vendor sends to us, so we have no
control of what to do. They tell us that the target is a PDS or PDSE,
but I was just looking for a backup method to try and ensure that what
they say matches the file. As I'm sure you know, if they unloaded a PDS
file with load modules, you can't take the unloaded file and then try to
load it into a PDSE. Likewise, if a PDSE with program objects was
unloaded, you can't load it into a standard PDS.
Billy
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