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Chapter 20. DITTO
Data Interfile Transfer, Testing, and Operations Utility (DITTO) is IBM′s best
known storage media and data maintenance utility program for the OS/390, MVS,
VSE, and VM environments.
DITTO is a key resource for data processing professionals due to many versatile
functions working with tapes, disks, VTOCs and catalogs, VSAM data, VSE library
members, sequential data sets and files, MVS Object Access Method (OAM)
objects, and card images.
DITTO/ESA introduced an all in one User′s Guide to let users of OS/390,
MVS/ESA, VSE/ESA, and VM/ESA compare the functions and parameters
supported in each one of these S/390 environments.
DITTO/ESA Release 2 is the latest release of the well known DITTO family of
products. It supersedes DITTO/ESA Release 1 (which superseded MVS/DITTO
Version 2.1, the DITTO 3.2 Productivity Features for VSE and VM, and DITTO for
VSE and VM 3.2 base product).
It provides a consistent package of functions for the MVS, VSE, and VM user with
a common user interface supporting the following operating system
environments:
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OS/390
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MVS/ESA
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VSE/ESA
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VM/ESA
The following topics will be discussed:
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20.1, Compatibility with Previous Releases of DITTO
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20.2, DITTO Functions that are No Longer Supported
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20.3, DITTO Functions that are Not Recommended
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20.4, DITTO Function Code Synonyms
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20.5, Batch Keywords that are No Longer Supported
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20.6, Batch Keywords that are Not Recommended
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20.7, DITTO/ESA Security
20.1 Compatibility with Previous Releases of DITTO
This section describes the differences between DITTO/ESA and previous
versions of DITTO:
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MVS/DITTO Version 2 Release 1 (Program Number 5695-100)
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DITTO Version 3 Release 2 for VSE and VM (Program Number 5688-052)
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DITTO Version 3 Release 2 Productivity Features for VSE and VM
Under VSE and CMS, the DVT and VDL functions have been changed.
Previously, an asterisk (*) within a file ID represented any number of characters.
Now, one asterisk represents any number of characters within a qualifier and a
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