On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:16:04, Guy Gardoit <[email protected]> wrote:

>No, the rename is done after the copy.
>
>We never IPL the staging volumes either and the clone process are
>full-volumes dumps, using FDR of course, from the staging to the alternate
>resvols.   Hence, I need to rename any zFS files that are copied by
>replacing the "STAGING" qualifier to a alternate resvol name.   [...]

OK, I misread or missed something your earlier post.  Same approach here, 
though I won't say we "never" IPL the staging volumes (first IPL of a new 
z/OS release in our sandbox).

>I just like to leave any "system" related zFS on one of our non-SMS staging
>volumes, and ultimately, on a second resvol, so the Storage Group doesn't
>have to get involved.  [...]  I don't see any reason for treating data sets 
>related to OMVS any differently from the rest of the z/OS libraries.

FWIW, agreed, wholeheartedly.

Sorry to have hijacked the thread into a cloning discussion.

Regards,
Art Gutowski
Ford Motor Company

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