Hello Everyone,
On the z/VSE side the commands will show the relationships of source to target
volume.
IXFP STATUS
STATUS,CUU
I am sure there is a z/VM query command but I can't find it (again).
Ed Martin
Aultman Health Foundation
330-363-5050
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On Behalf
Of Scott Rohling
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2011 1:34 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: CLONEBKP: New package at zVM/downloads
It will likely fail, with a message that the target is not in the required
state and is the target of an existing flashcopy... until the background
copying finishes -- you won't be able to flash to the same target.
Scott Rohling
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Alain Benveniste <a.benveni...@free.fr> wrote:
What would happen if we have flashcopy and we execute the same command 2 times
in sequence ?
Alain
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Le 17 juin 2011 à 17:44, Tom Duerbusch <duerbus...@stlouiscity.com> a écrit :
> 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
>>
>>
>>
