Dennis, You don't have o clip the labels of a conditioned volume - that's the reason for dumpconditioning. However conditioning is a function provided by DFDSS, so you will be doing a normal copy of every volume prior to dumping it.
DFDSS can interact with Flashcopy so that the hardware will handle the copy. On HDS you need Shadowimage with the FC add-on so that Shadowimage executes as FC compatible. This means your DFDSS copies will be complete almost instantly and Dumpconditioning will leave the target volume online so you can DUMP it. With the FC extension you can also combine Dumpconditioning with FCNOCOPY and FCWITHDRAW. In your first e-mail you mentioned PPRCcopy, which the ensuing thread assumed you meant TrueCopy. If that's right then none of the discussion about DFDSS is applicable because FC does not interact with Remote Copy software. You also mentioned a "new HDS 9900." There are no "new" 9900s, and in fact we stopped making them half a decade ago. IIRC the Flashcopy extension is limited to FC Version functions only. Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dennis Leong > Sent: Thursday, 9 March 2006 5:51 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: HDS backup process > > Since we are not able to purchase something like FDR Instant, I'm looking > for other ways to avoid having to clip volume labels. Has anyone had any > experience copying volumes with DFDSS COPY with the dumpconditional and > fastreplication keywords on a HDS 9900? Is Showdow Image invoked? > > Also what functionality does ShadowImage Flashcopy v2 Extension > provide? What is > the difference if I run DFDSS COPY with dumpconditional with and without > this extension? > Thank you. > > - enD sin > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
