Full or incremental image copies with COPYTOCOPY

You can copy a full image copy or an incremental image copy by using FROMLASTCOPY keyword.

If you do not specify FROMLASTCOPY, it will be used by default, as shown in the following example. In this example, the COPYTOCOPY control statement specifies that the utility is to make a backup copy of the most recent full image copy or an incremental image copy of the table space DSN8S13E in database DSN8D13A:

COPYTOCOPY TABLESPACE DSN8D13A.DSN8S13E
     COPYDDN(,DDNAME2)

The COPYTOCOPY utility makes a copy from an existing image copy and writes pages from the image copy to the output data sets. The JCL for the utility job must include DD statements or a template for the output data sets. If the object consists of multiple data sets and all are copied in one job, the copies reside in one physical sequential output data set.