Processing Element Actions › The Transfer Statement

The Transfer Statement

The TRANSFER statement transfers an element from one location to another. There are three types of transfers:

• CA Endevor SCM to CA Endevor SCM transfers elements from one CA Endevor SCM location to another.
• CA Endevor SCM to an archive data set transfers elements from CA Endevor SCM to an archive data set.
• Archive/unload data set to CA Endevor SCM transfers elements from an archive data set or an unload tape to CA Endevor SCM.

The TRANSFER action is available in batch only. If the elements have been transferred to an archive data set, the COPY, LIST, and RESTORE actions can be executed against that data set.

Sourceless elements cannot be transferred. When an attempt to transfer an explicitly specified sourceless element is encountered, the action fails. If a sourceless element is encountered during wildcard expansion, the element is skipped and a warning message is issued.

When the element being transferred has a sourceless element downstream from the source and the target location is not upstream or is being transferred downstream before the sourceless element, and no other instance of a sourced element exists upstream, while the action has the delete source option on, the action fails. This check is performed before any source management activities occur. If no source exists upstream for a sourceless element, this would make it impossible to regenerate that element since the source no longer exists.