Copying Members Have Alias Names

Summary

Rules
Practical Example

For basic information, go through the IEBCOPY Utility (for Beginners)

IEBCOPY can use to copy the members that have alias names.
The COPY or COPYGRP statement is used to copy a PDS or PDSE with members with alias names.

Rules -

All members with their aliases are copied if they copy an entire data set to a new one.
If merging a data set with another, members or aliases will not change on the output data set.
When selectively copying from a PDS, we need to specify every name, including their aliases.
To exclude a member, we should specify that member's name and all of its alias names to exclude it from the copy operation.

Practical Example -

Scenario - Copying member (COPY) and its alias (COPYALIA) from one PDS to another.

Input -

JCL -

----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7--
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//MATEPKC  JOB (123),'MTH',CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=A,MSGLEVEL=(1,1),           
//             NOTIFY=&SYSUID                                           
//***************************************************                   
//* COPY MEMBER AND ITS ALIAS                                           
//***************************************************                   
//STEP10   EXEC PGM=IEBCOPY                                             
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*                                                  
//SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=*                                                  
//SYSDUMP  DD SYSOUT=*                                                  
//SYSUT1   DD DSN=MATEPK.IEBCOPY.INPPDS,DISP=SHR                        
//SYSUT2   DD DSN=MATEPK.IEBCOPY.OUTPDS,DISP=OLD                        
//SYSIN    DD *                                                         
     COPY INDD=SYSUT1,OUTDD=SYSUT2                                      
     SELECT MEMBER=(FIRSTPRG,FSTALIAS)                                  
/*                                                                      
**************************** Bottom of Data ****************************

Job Status -

Output -

Explaining Example -

SYSUT1 DD DSN=MATEPK.IEBCOPY.INPPDS - Specifies the input PDS.
SYSUT2 DD DSN=MATEPK.IEBCOPY.OUTPDS - Specifies the output PDS.
COPYGRP INDD=SYSUT1,OUTDD=SYSUT2 - Copies members from SYSUT1 to SYSUT2.
SELECT MEMBER=(FIRSTPRG,FSTALIAS) - Copies member FIRSTPRG and its alias FSTALIAS from SYSUT1 to SYSUT2.