No, I got that wrong.  I should have read the manual instead of relying on
memory, or maybe assumptions.  I do cross-load/unloads from time-to-time,
but they must all be non-executables.

Still, it seems like an odd hole in IEBCOPY's functionality.

sas

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 8:37 PM Billy Ashton <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> >
>

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