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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
