John, As others have stated, with BLP you would want to concatenate the 2 volumes together with LABEL=(2,BLP) on each one. However, as others have also said it would be far better to use SL and then simply bypass your tape management system with EXPDT=98000. For one thing, there is no problem with the operator mounting the wrong tape with SL processing. If the wrong tape is mount it would be rejected and the mount for the requested volser would be re-displayed. With BLP processing, especially if all the tapes were created with the same dump utility (FDR or DFDSS), if the wrong tape is mounted it won't matter, and whatever is on the mounted tape will be read and restored. So you could end up with the contents of dasd volume ABCDEF restored twice; once on volume ABCDEF and one on volume AAABBB. And you wouldn't even notice until you started to run your applications. BLP has its places, but not doing something with this many volume at a DR location; not when its so simple to bypass the tape management system.
Russell Witt CA-1 Level-2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Benik Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 3:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: problems with multi volume, restore using FDR Thanks for your help I'll see if I can find any more information on this on Monday. It was very obvious that this was the first time this had ever gone multivolume. The tapes are created SL tapes so my thinking was that once the TMC was up and running on this system I could restore them as SL. The problem was the tmc was not restored from the backup tape but a full volume backup. I never tried the concatination method, but instead we had it coded as vol=(,retain,,ser=111111,222222) it sounds like the concatination may have worked fine instead. The job is created with Label= (2,blp) on the first dataset then the next step might have label= (5,blp) ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
