Well, if you have Suprtool, you could extract them to a flat file and
then use Suprtool to put the entries to the new data set.  Barring that,
you could extract them with QUERY and write a COBOL program to put the
entries back.

You definitely don't want to store and restore the individual set.

Good Luck.

Phil Anthony
Director, System Resources
United Video Satellite Group
918-488-4059
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cary A Marshall [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 14, 1998 2:12 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Store, Restore Dataset
>
> We've recently upgraded a third party payroll package on our
> development
> machine. This required setting up new tables which are included in a
> single
> Image dataset. We're getting ready to run the upgrade again ( for
> practice
> before upgrading our production machine) on the developmnent machine,
> but we
> would like to avoid re-doing all the table entries again. And those
> same
> tables will be used on the production machine as well. So here's my
> question:  What's the best way of storing/restoring that dataset?
> We're
> running MPE/ix 5.0 with Adager.
> I know that you can  STORE the db and RESTORE individual datasets, but
> I'm
> concerned that I might get into trouble with the root file.  The
> payoll
> folks suggested a procedure to use Query to save the dataset entries
> to a
> file and use Dbgeneral to write the info back into the dataset, but we
> don't
> have that option.
>
> Thanks for any help....Cary Marshall