On Saturday 08 August 2009, tomas_anderson wrote: > I saw in the reference that DFSMSdss DUMP/RESTORE could be used to > externally back up/recovery DB2 data sets, using VSAM CI processing. But I > can not find further information about this CI processing. Have you heard > of that before? I believe the reference says you may copy DB2 data sets with DFSMSdss or with VSAM utilities that use CI processing; e.g. VSAM EXPORT CIMODE (RECORDMODE is the default and cannot be used with DB2 data sets - most DB2 data sets are linear data sets or specially formated VSAM and cannot be processed by record level VSAM services).
The bigger question is why do you want to use DFSMSdss for DB2 back up and restore? DB2 provides backup/restore utilities using full and incremental image copies, along with forward log recovery - things very difficult to accomplish using DFSMSdss or VSAM utilities. I presume you have seen the posts from Joel Ewing and Ed Finnell. Regards, Richard Pace Software Engineer IBM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
