Bruce,
thanks for the confirmation.. I started out many years ago on FDR and
the volume-orientaion was just something I accepted - the number of DASD
was a lot smaller, no SMS etc. (In fact its 'volumeness was always
something I missed when i was at a site - I'm contractor - and trying to
do full volume dumps with DSS and one of the datasets was cataloged
elsewhere and it would spit out errors!! FDR just did 'what it said on
the can' a physical dump!!)
Anyway now days, apart from allocating specific system datasets, volumes
very rarely get specifed, and the same for backups. I had just expected,
having been used to DSS for a few years, that I would be able to do
similar logical backups to a single dataset with DSF. Maybe you can
pass it on as a suggestion. I'll see what I can do with FDRAPPL
Thanks
Roy
Bruce Black wrote:
Roy, you are correct that FDR has a volume-orientation. One backup file
contains data from only one disk volume.
We address this with FDRAPPL (Section 52 in the manual), which allows
you to select datasets from the catalog, and FDRAPPL generates multiple
backup files for the volumes involved. FDRAPPL: requires a license
for FDRABR, or it can be licensed by itself.
Please call us if you need more info
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