Endevor package output shipping and IBM BDT-2

Products

• Endevor
• Endevor Natural Integration
• Endevor - ECLIPSE Plugin
• Endevor - Enterprise Workbench

Issue/Introduction

Would it be possible to use IBM's BDT-2 product (Bulk Data Transfer) to ship package outputs that reside in PDS/E libraries, like the program objects produced by the latest Enterprise COBOL versions?

 

Environment

Release:
Component: ENDBAS

Resolution

Unfortunately not. IBM's BDT-2 cannot transmit PDS/E datasets. Only sequential and PDS are supported.

Whenever program objects (residing in PDS/E program libraries) are shipped using BDT-2, the following effecta can be observed:

• Endevor creates PDS/E host staging libraries
• The remote staging libraries created by BDT-2 are PDS
• Copy of the remote staging datasets to its final destination raises message IEW2508S 3605 MODULE TESTIFOR IDENTIFIED BY DDNAME IAR002 IS NOT A VALID
  PROGRAM OBJECT. CODE 1 to JESMSGLG
• IEBCOPY SYSPRINT shows error messages like IGW01207E BINDER DETECTED AN ERROR WHILE PROCESSING MEMBER TESTIFOR.  BINDER RETURN CODE = X'0000000C' REASON CODE = X'83000503' which indicate an I/O error in the input dataset

Sites in this situation need to change the transmission method to, for example, FTP or XCOM.