There shouldn't be any harm in using the SPHERE option on a VSAM dataset copy
operation.
SPHERE specifies that, for any VSAM cluster copied, all associated AIX®
clusters and paths are to be copied. Individual names of sphere components do
not need to be specified. Only the base cluster name is
Sounds like a KSDS. Are there any alternate indexes? Is the dataset
multi-volume? Is not, you should be OK specifying just the base cluster name.
Steve Gorham, Baltimore
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