In preparation for a Disaster Recovery Test the Storage Group tested
DFSMSDSS to dump and restore a VM volume. The dump appears to work but
the restore failed. Does anybody know what magical incantation,
parameter, option or format of the restore to volume needs to be done in
order to get the restore to work?
I do not wish to start the OS/VTOC on VM volume discussion all over
again, I just want to know what has to be done to get DFSMSDSS to
correctly DUMP at VM volume to tape then RESTORE that tape to a volume
as a VM pack.
The following is what I was given:
Ok, here is what we have for the dump for 8003 which is VSCO05:
DUMP -
ADMINISTRATOR -
INDDNAME(DISK) -
OUTDDNAME(TAPE) -
TRACKS(0,0,3338,14) -
CPVOLUME -
CANCELERROR -
OPTIMIZE(4)
ADR101I (R/I)-RI01 (01), TASKID 001 HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO COMMAND 'DUMP '
ADR109I (R/I)-RI01 (01), 2009.051 08:29:29 INITIAL SCAN OF USER CONTROL
STATEMEN
ADR016I (001)-PRIME(01), RACF LOGGING OPTION IN EFFECT FOR THIS TASK
ADR006I (001)-STEND(01), 2009.051 08:29:29 EXECUTION BEGINS
ADR006I (001)-STEND(02), 2009.051 08:30:56 EXECUTION ENDS
ADR013I (001)-CLTSK(01), 2009.051 08:30:56 TASK COMPLETED WITH RETURN
CODE 0000
ADR012I (SCH)-DSSU (01), 2009.051 08:30:56 DFSMSDSS PROCESSING COMPLETE.
HIGHEST
READY
Here are the restore parameters and error for 8003:
- RESTORE -
TRACKS(0,0,3338,14) -
CPVOLUME -
ADMINISTRATOR -
INDDNAME(TAPE) -
OUTDDNAME(DISK) -
PURGE
ADR101I (R/I)-RI01 (01), TASKID 001 HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO COMMAND
'RESTORE '
ADR109I (R/I)-RI01 (01), 2009.050 08:58:47 INITIAL SCAN OF USER CONTROL
STATEME
ADR016I (001)-PRIME(01), RACF LOGGING OPTION IN EFFECT FOR THIS TASK
0ADR006I (001)-STEND(01), 2009.050 08:58:47 EXECUTION BEGINS
0ADR780I (001)-TDFP (01), THE INPUT DUMP DATA SET BEING PROCESSED IS IN
TRACKS (
1 RELEASE 8 MODIFICATION LEVEL 0
0ADR307E (001)-OPNCL(11), UNABLE TO OPEN VOLUME VSCO05, 16
0ADR006I (001)-STEND(02), 2009.050 08:58:49 EXECUTION ENDS
0ADR013I (001)-CLTSK(01), 2009.050 08:58:49 TASK COMPLETED WITH RETURN
CODE 0008
0ADR012I (SCH)-DSSU (01), 2009.050 08:58:49 DFSMSDSS PROCESSING
COMPLETE. HIGHES
TASK 001
ADR307E:
Explanation: DFSMSdss is unable to OPEN volume volume_serial_number for
the reason indicated by the reason code (reason_code). OBTAIN, RDJFCB,
or
OPEN passed the return code (return_code). The possible reason codes
are:
16 The VM-formatted volume does not have an OS-compatible VTOC
beginning
on track zero, record five.
Thank you,
Jim
