Re: DFDSS and Copy of Offline Volumes

2007-12-08 Thread Bruce Hewson
EMC's Infomover product accesses OFFLINE products from the mainframe... and as a result doesn't support dynamic path. Regards Bruce Hewson -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: DFDSS and Copy of Offline Volumes

2007-12-07 Thread Joel C. Ewing
The most common case where one might want to do this is when you have made a full-volume disk-to-disk copy, including volser, with the idea of then backing up the copy. But since DFDSS forces the copy off line because of the duplicate volser, DFDSS then can't dump the volume. FDR will allow

Re: DFDSS and Copy of Offline Volumes

2007-12-04 Thread Brian Westerman
I have a program that I developed to do this, it's for full volume backups and restores only, but lets you both backup and restore to an offline address. If you would like a copy, send me an email and I'll send it to you off list. Brian

DFDSS and Copy of Offline Volumes

2007-12-03 Thread Kenneth R Barkhau
Hello - Anyone aware of being able to use DFDSS to COPY Volumes that are OFFLINE? I have looked but have not found anything yet to indicate that support exists for doing that. Thanks much in advance. Ken Kenneth R. Barkhau

Re: DFDSS and Copy of Offline Volumes

2007-12-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth R Barkhau Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 7:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: DFDSS and Copy of Offline Volumes Hello - Anyone aware of being able to use DFDSS to COPY

Re: DFDSS and Copy of Offline Volumes

2007-12-03 Thread Brad Carson
and Copy of Offline Volumes Hello - Anyone aware of being able to use DFDSS to COPY Volumes that are OFFLINE? I have looked but have not found anything yet to indicate that support exists for doing that. Thanks much in advance. Ken Kenneth R. Barkhau No can do. I think