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2.6.1.1 Operands of SMCOPY

When using the SMCOPY command, specify the following operands:

FROMDATASET(dsname) or FDS(dsname) to designate the originating sequential data set or member of a partitioned data set
TODATASET(dsname) or TDS(dsname) to designate the destination sequential data set or member of a partitioned data set
NOTRANS to prevent characters in the data set from changing to upper case and unprintable characters from changing to blanks

You can copy a data set to either a new or existing data set. When you copy to a new data set, the system allocates one for you, using the attributes of the data set being copied. When you copy to an existing data set, the system uses the attributes of the data set to which you are copying the data.

You can copy data sets that have different logical record lengths or block sizes. You cannot, however, copy data sets that have different record formats. For example, you cannot copy a data set with a record format of FB to a data set with a record format of VB.

    ___ Example ____________________________________________________________  
   | To copy member MEM1 of the partitioned data set PREFIX.PDS1.DATA into  | 
   | member MEM2 of PREFIX.PDS2.DATA, specify:                              | 
   |                                                                        | 
   |   SMCOPY FDS(pds1.data(mem1)) TDS(pds2.data(mem2)) NOTRANS             | 
   |                                                                        | 
   |                                                                        | 
   |                                                                        | 
   | To copy member MEM1 of the partitioned data set PREFIX.PDS1.DATA into  | 
   | the sequential data set PREFIX.SEQ1.DATA, specify:                     | 
   |                                                                        | 
   |   SMCOPY FDS(pds1.data(mem1)) TDS(seq1.data) NOTRANS                   | 
   |                                                                        | 
   |________________________________________________________________________|

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2.6.1.1 Operands of SMCOPY

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