While it, and DB2 Linear datasets may look VSAM-ish, there are limitations. If you use IDCAMS you may need to work at the CI level, not the record level.
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:04:57 -0500, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:43:41 -0500, McKown, John ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Is there any reason that IDCAMS EXPORT TEMPORARY will not work to create >>a backup of an unmounted zFS container file? Or should I use DFDSS? What >>about CA's FAVER VSAM backup tool? >> >>-- > >The DFS zFS admin guide says to use DFDSSdss since it automatically >quiesces the zFS aggregate. But if it is unmounted, the quiesce is not >an issue. There is a Redbook (z/OS Distributed File Service zSeries >File System Implementation - SG24-6580-01) that talks about other >options including IDCAMS REPRO or creating a clone as a backup >file system. > >Mark >-- >Mark Zelden >Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead >Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ >Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ >Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
