To throw another tangent to this.... On z/VSE, FCOPY detects the present of FLASHCOPY and will use FLASHCOPY when available and it makes sense to use it.
I got plenty of calls from Operations when a DS8100 was brought in and we intended to phase in FLASHCOPY. FCOPY "phased" it in, very quickly <G>. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> Scott Rohling <scott.rohl...@gmail.com> 6/16/2011 3:45 PM >>> No - the CP FLASHCOPY command only works with the flashcopy feature on the DASD -- it will simply fail if it's not enabled. You may have been using a 'wrapper' EXEC that did that for you a while ago or something. Even if FLASHCOPY is specified for an option in the CLONEBKUP tool - I would suggest it fall back to DDR if flashcopy fails -- as it will if you are copying dasd that are on different subsystems.. Scott Rohling On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Davis, Larry (National VM/VSE Capability) < larry.dav...@hp.com> wrote: > I Believe Flashcopy uses DDR, if Flashcopy is not available on the > subsystem, But that was a while ago. > > > > Larry Davis** > > > > *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] *On > Behalf Of *Scott Rohling > *Sent:* Thursday, June 16, 2011 4:16 PM > > *To:* IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > *Subject:* Re: CLONEBKP: New package at zVM/downloads > > > > key word 'option' .. it's pretty easy to code for doing either a > flashcopy or ddr, whether passed as an option, or even detected > automatically (try a flash and if it fails do the ddr). > > > > Scott Rohling > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Mark Post <mp...@novell.com> wrote: > > >>> On 6/16/2011 at 08:06 AM, "Frank M. Ramaekers" <framaek...@ailife.com> > wrote: > > 1 suggestion: FLASHCOPY option (to replace DDR) > > Which would then break on all the systems where it hasn't been purchased. > > > Mark Post > > >
