Taking Backup of a Partitioned Dataset using ICEGENER

[Priyadarshan]

Hi All,

I have a question. I need to take backup of all members present in a Partitioned Dataset ( PDS1) into another Partitioned Dataset (PDS2). This PDS2 has to be a new dataset everytime the job is run.

I tried doing this operation using IEBCOPY and was successful in doing so. But I need to do this using ICEGENER.

I searched for some documentation on ICEGENER but failed to lay my hands on something concrete.

Can this be done using ICEGENER and can someone help me with as to how i go ahead with this ?

Priyadarshan.

[arrbee]

When you are acheiving the objective by using an utility why do you want to use another utility? Are you finding different ways of doing it? I think ICEGENER is advanced version of IEBGENER.
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[Priyadarshan]

It's true that i was able to do it using IEBCOPY but as per our standards we have to do it using ICEGENER. And we have to follow standards.
So I need to do it using ICEGENER. Hope this answers your question.

Priyadarshan.

[Frank Yaeger]

ICEGENER is DFSORT's replacement for IEBGENER. ICEGENER uses DFSORT's Copy function to copy a data set or a member of a pds. ICEGENER does NOT handle multiple pds members in one invocation.

For complete information on DFSORT's ICEGENER, see:

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ICE1CA10/9.2.17?DT=20050222160456

The only way you could do what you want with ICEGENER would be to use one invocation of ICEGENER for each member in the pds - SYSUT1 points to oldpds(member) and SYSUT2 points to newpds(member) for each member. So ICEGENER is probably NOT the right tool for this task.

If IEBGENER can do what you want with control statements, then you could use ICEGENER and the control statements will cause ICEGENER to automatically use IEBGENER. So maybe what you're really asking is whether IEBGENER can do what you want. If it can, then you can "pretend" ICEGENER is doing it even though IEBGENER is really doing it.
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[arrbee]

That is good info frank.
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