Ed, Glad to hear that it is working out for you! TCT will be a perfect addition.
1) HSM does provide data set level recovery from copy pools, just differently :) If the data set has not been deleted or moved since the backup, it's supported w/o a catalog capture. To support recovery for deleted/moved data sets, then it requires the data in the copy pool to be cataloged to catalogs also within the copy pool. You then define the catalogs to the copy pool and indicate that HSM should capture the catalog information during the FRBACKUP. This will extend the elapsed time of the FRBACKUP. LIST COPYPOOL has a datasets option to list the data sets that were included in the FRBACKUP. You then use the DSNAME keyword on the FRRECOV command. All flavors of data sets are supported. Multivolume, etc. We do a physical DSS copy (disk) or restore (tape) and then HSM recatalogs all of the pieces after the physical data recoveries complete. Recovery from tape is slow because DSS has to search the dump volume to find the extents. 2) You know the drill :) Open an RFE. With our crazy world, we have an extensive DFSMS roadmap around cyber resiliency enhancements. Stay cool :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
