On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 09:15:31 -0500, Knutson, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi Tom, > >Yes it is possible to use Flashcopy to establish Flashcopy pairs for a >large number of volumes at approximately the same time. We do this in >conjunction with a daily syncpoint where activity is suspended in DB2 to >support DRP. > >PAGE 0001 5695-DF175 DFSMSDSS V1R07.0 DATA SET SERVICES >2006.359 00:30 >ADR004I (SCH)-PRIME(01), USER ABEND 0001 WILL BE ISSUED ON OCCURRENCE >0001 OF MESSAGE ADR306 > PARALLEL > >ADR101I (R/I)-RI01 (01), TASKID 001 HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO COMMAND >'PARALLEL' > COPY FULL INDDNAME(SOURCE1) OUTDDNAME(TARGET1) DUMPCONDITIONING - > > PURGE FCNOCOPY ADMINISTRATOR ALLDATA(*) ALLEXCP > >ADR101I (R/I)-RI01 (01), TASKID 002 HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO COMMAND 'COPY ' > > COPY FULL INDDNAME(SOURCE2) OUTDDNAME(TARGET2) DUMPCONDITIONING - > > PURGE FCNOCOPY ADMINISTRATOR ALLDATA(*) ALLEXCP > >ADR101I (R/I)-RI01 (01), TASKID 003 HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO COMMAND 'COPY ' > > COPY FULL INDDNAME(SOURCE3) OUTDDNAME(TARGET3) DUMPCONDITIONING - > > PURGE FCNOCOPY ADMINISTRATOR ALLDATA(*) ALLEXCP > <snip> > >To minimize the time you can use multiple jobs, multiple steps in each >job (we do 20 volumes in each step), and use the PARALLEL option in >DFDSS. >You can Flashcopy hundreds or thousands of volumes quickly. A typical >Flashcopy job here does 100 volumes in 5 steps in 30 to 50 seconds >total. > > Best Regards, > > Sam Knutson, GEICO > Performance and Availability Management > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (office) 301.986.3574 > >Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; Seek what >they sought. >Basho > > Sam, Thanks for this. I did a little RTFM and based on what you have above, I need to then run a DFDSS DUMP with FCWITDRAW on the target, correct? If so, then the process is very close to the SnapShot process my client is using. Tom ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
