I wish I had some examples of when it worked, but I don't. I can tell you it was under z/OS 2.4 and before we had any z16's, that it worked, we now are on 2.5 and have z/16s. We've had IBM tape for about 3 or 4 years and have not changed that JCL at all. We didn't need to use copygroup previously, but we have gotten rid of PDSMAN that could be causing this, which I'm thinking is more then likely the case, as PDSMAN had a lot of hooks and probably would have allowed for wildcard characters. It would be nice to get confirmation though. Here is the error that we get when we try to copy while excluding $READ, and FTPTOOL*.
IEBCOPY MESSAGES AND CONTROL STATEMENTS IEB1135I IEBCOPY FMID HDZ2250 SERVICE LEVEL UJ05520 DATED 20210505 DFSMS 02.0 L205 M5-RSU 2306 IEB1035I TSUAW6OT COPY STEP 15:36:21 FRI 27 OCT 2023 PARM='' COPY OUTDD=PDSOUT,INDD=PDSIBM 00370022 EXCLUDE MEMBER=(STATSORT,EXPIRE,$$CPYLIB,$$TAILOR,$READ*,FTPTOOL*) 00380022 IEB105I PARAMETER INVALID IEB118I CONTROL STATEMENT ERROR IEB115I END OF FILE ON SYSIN IEB151I JOB HAS TERMINATED WITH ERROR(S) IEB147I END OF JOB - 8 WAS HIGHEST SEVERITY CODE Regards, John Benik -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Monday, October 30, 2023 11:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Changes to IEBCOPY?? Caution: External email. Do not open attachments or click on links if you do not recognize the sender. Are you sure that it's the same input? The last I looked, the asterisk was only valid under a COPYGROUP. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Benik, John E <000001ace072c099-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2023 9:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Changes to IEBCOPY?? We recently uploaded the latest version of Tapetools. That was a success, but when we ran our version of $$CPYLIB which is shown below we had issues. //COPY EXEC PGM=IEBCOPY //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //PDSIBM DD DSN=&TOOLHLQ..IBMTOOLS.JCL,DISP=SHR //PDSOUT DD DSN=&USERHLQ..&SITE..&PRIMARY..JCL,DISP=SHR //SYSIN DD DUMMY //* // PEND *** END OF COPY PROC *** //* //STEP EXEC COPYLIB //COPY.SYSIN DD * COPY OUTDD=PDSOUT,INDD=PDSIBM EXCLUDE MEMBER=(STATSORT,EXPIRE,$$CPYLIB,$$TAILOR,$READ*,FTPTOOL*) IEBCOPY no longer seems to work with the $READ*, and FTPTOOL* we removed those and it was fine. Does anybody know if there where changes to IEBCOPY that may prevent this, as it worked fine in 2022? We are hoping to complete work on tape tools this week for all our systems, and realize that we may have to copy the $READ*, and FTPTOOL* over to our own library and delete afterwards but before $$TAILOR, but would like to avoid if possible as we are training some new people to take this over. Regards, John Benik This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or intended recipient’s authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the person or entity to which it is addressed. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or intended recipient’s authorized agent, the reader is hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by replying to this message and delete this e-mail immediately. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN