You can produce a backup copy of a sequential data set or member of a partitioned data set or PDSE by copying the data set or member to any IBM-supported output device. For example, a copy can be made from tape to tape, from DASD to tape, and so forth.

A data set that resides on a direct access volume can be copied to its own volume, provided that you change the name of the data set.

Restriction: When you use IEBGENER to process partitioned data sets as sequential data sets, IEBGENER will not perform any directory entry processing (for instance, copying attributes of members of load module libraries). IEBCOPY does perform directory entry processing.