Termination of COPY

SYSIBM.SYSCOPY records

When you terminate COPY, Db2 inserts an ICTYPE=T record in the SYSIBM.SYSCOPY catalog table for each object that COPY started processing, but did not yet complete processing. The exception is if COPY is already in the UTILTERM phase. In this case, the image copy is considered complete.

For copies that are made with the SHRLEVEL REFERENCE option specified, some objects in the list might not have an ICTYPE=T record. For copies that were made with the SHRLEVEL CHANGE option specified, some objects might have a valid ICTYPE=F, I, or T record, or no record at all.

COPY does not allow you to take an incremental image copy if an ICTYPE=T record exists. You must take a full image copy.

Image copy data sets with DISP=(MOD,CATLG,CATLG)

If you terminate a COPY job where the data sets for the image copies are defined with parameter DISP=(MOD,CATLG,CATLG), take one of the following actions:

• If the job step contains only one COPY utility statement, delete the image copy data set. In this case, no row was written to SYSIBM.SYSCOPY, but an image copy data set was created and cataloged in the ICF catalog. You should delete that data set.
• If the job step contains several COPY utility statements, delete all image copy data sets that are not recorded in SYSIBM.SYSCOPY. In this case, a row for each successfully completed copy was written to SYSIBM.SYSCOPY. However, all the image copy data sets were created and cataloged. You should delete those data sets that are not recorded in SYSIBM.SYSCOPY.