Selecting Members for Copy/Unload/Load

Selecting Members for Copy/Unload/Load

Summary
  • IEBCOPY SELECT statement is used to select members from one or more PDS during the copy or load or unload.
  • SELECT and EXCLUDE statements can’t be used in the same copy operation.
  • Selected members are searched for in an a-to-z collating sequence, regardless of the order in the SELECT statement.
  • The members are copied in the same physical sequence appearing on the input PDS or PDSE.
  • Members can be renamed while copying unless the input and output PDS are identical.
  • Once a member in a SELECT statement is found in an input PDS, no further search is done for it.
  • When using COPYGRP, use SELECT MEMBER name filter pattern masking instead of specifying a full member name. The filter characters asterisk (*) and percent sign (%) provide the member name filtering capability.

Practical Example -

Scenario - Copying members (COPY) from one PDS to another.

JCL -

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//MATEPKS  JOB (123),'MTH',CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=A,MSGLEVEL=(1,1),           
//             NOTIFY=&SYSUID                                           
//***************************************************                   
//* SELETING MEMBER(S) FROM INPUT PDS DURING COPY                       
//***************************************************                   
//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,IDENTDIV,LEVELNUM                           
/*

Job Status -

Selecting Members for Copy

Output -

Selecting Members for Copy

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,IDENTDIV,LEVELNUM - Copies member FIRSTPRG,IDENTDIV and LEVELNUM from SYSUT1 to SYSUT2.