Excluding Members from a Copy


IEBCOPY EXCLUDE statement is used to exclude the members during the copy, unload, and load operations. The excluded member is searched on every input PDS and is omitted.

A maximum of eight characters can be allowed for the member or alias name on a copy operation. EXCLUDE is not allowed for COPYGRP.

Practical Example -


Scenario - Excluding a members while copying from one PDS to another.

Input -

EXCLUDE Input

JCL -

----+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+
//MATEPKC  JOB (123),'MTH',CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=A,MSGLEVEL=(1,1),
//             NOTIFY=&SYSUID
//***********************************************************
//* EXCLIDING MEMBERS WHILE COPY FROM ONE PDS TO ANOTHER
//*********************************************************** 
//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
     EXCLUDE MEMBER=MAINPROG
/*

Job Status -

EXCLUDE Job Status

Output -

EXCLUDE Output

Explaining Example -

  • SYSUT1 DD DSN=MATEPK.IEBCOPY.INPLOAD - Specifies the input load PDS.
  • SYSUT2 DD DSN=MATEPK.IEBCOPY.OUTLOAD,.. - Specifies the output load PDS.
  • COPY INDD=SYSUT1,OUTDD=SYSUT2
    EXCLUDE MEMBER=MAINPROG
    - Copies all other members except MAINPROG from SYSUT1 to SYSUT2.