Re: Copying the contents of one IFS directory to another

Ouch! I'm sorry that didn't help much.

What other jobs do you have running that might have a lock on them? Or, possisbly, on the folder above them.

We have a command from somewhere on the internet titled DSPIFSLCK that will display the locks... It does let you display the locks on a folder.

Although not much help, part of the help text for the command does say "An IFS object can be flagged as "in use" without a specific job being identified as currently holding a lock."

There is a system command, RLSIFSLCK that might help.

A couple of thoughts...

Do you have enough authority to access the from folder? Could the 'in use' be really a 'no authority' error?

If you run the CPY in restricted state, there probably won't be any locks...

Any possibility of renaming the existing directory as "OldStuff" and creating a new, empty directory? And copy any objects needed in the new folder out of the OldStuff?

--Paul E Musselman

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At 1:08 PM -0800 1/14/21, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

On 1/14/21 8:56 AM, PaulMmn wrote:

Check out the CPY command.

The CPY finally completed. 700000+ objects, and *none* were copied, because *all* were "in use."

How do I determine what was/is holding locks on them?

Is there a way to copy them anyway, other than via a save file?

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JHHL