I was thinking along these lines..
Still do a DEFSEG and a SAVESEGS but the files would be written to a CP accessed mini disk call it CCF1. Then a new command LOADSEGS would move the files to 'temporary' spool space.
On the mini disk one could save MYDCSS DCSS-1 and MYDCSS DCSS-2 .... MYDCSS DCSS-x then on the LOADSEGS specifying MYDCSS(always the name) and an arbitrary filefype DCSS-2.
This would mean the files could be backed up from the mini disk and since the DEFSEG/SAVESEGS is done against the disk files doing the LOADSEGS is pretty much a nobrainer. At VM IPL depending on options in the SYSTEM CONFIG file ALL DCSS's could be refreshed..
Tom
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Subject: Re: Saving a backup copy of NSSs with no tape drive
On: Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 08:48:33AM -0500,Huegel, Thomas Wrote:
} For what it's worth I am still doing flips at not having to deal with DMKSYS
} assemblies and IPL's for the saved segments. Now I am thinking 'Why keep
} them in spool space?' Wouldn't a more logical approach be to save the
} segments on a CP minidisk i.e. MAINT's CF1?
} That would solve a lot of backup/restore/format problems.
But then wouldn't you be back to HCPSYS? Unless you just have a section
of a CP-Owned volume allocated to say DCSS and you do DEFSEG and
SAVESEGS into there. But wouldn't that be spool by another name?
What I would like is more control over the classes, so you could have
several copies of a DCSS in the spool and the one you make class A is
the active one and other classes are there as backups, and class P works
as present. Perhaps a NEWCLS option on SAVESEG with the default being P.
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