First, my apologies for the garbled reply. I was in an airport and (a.) misconstrued Peter's note as a private reply; and (b.) my Samsung Android e-mail client total garbles LISTSERV replies.
Second, there can be little disagreement about the awfulness of two almost indistinguishable commands with almost the same name. I don't see how anyone can disagree with the assertion that the first two sentences contradict each other. I am going to separate them out here to make it more obvious: The COPYGROUP statement has the same effect as the COPYGRP statement when either the input or the output data set or both are partitioned format, that is either PDS or PDSEs. The function of a COPYGROUP statement differs from COPYGRP only if both of the data sets are PDSs. Third, with regard to IEBCOPY's failing and then exiting with return code zero, I can't find any documentation that specifies the meaning of a zero return code, but issuing IGW01557W MEMBER NOT COPIED and then exiting with return code zero certainly violates the principle of least astonishment. Fourth, I will reply to the entry point issue separately. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 1:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Two related alias entry address questions Peter, thanks for the note. I'm on a small screen with fat fingers. I will reply fully, tonight or tomorrow. I know the paragraph makes my head spin. CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity. -------- Original message --------From: Peter Relson <rel...@us.ibm.com> Date: 3/4/20 6:33 AM (GMT-08:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Two related alias entry address questions <snip>The COPYGROUP statement has the same effect as the COPYGRP statement wheneither the input or the output data set or both are partitioned format, that is eitherPDS or PDSEs. The function of a COPYGROUP statement differs from COPYGRPonly if both of the data sets are PDSs. COPYGROUP performs a full group copyoperation when both data sets ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
