Radoslaw, You can learn about our DFSMSdss Patch area here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=guide-dfsmsdss-patch-area I also understand your thoughts about a different interface for these things – You may consider submitting an IDEA so that clients can vote and provide their feedback.
Thanks! Ernesto E. Figueroa DFSMSdss Product Owner From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Radoslaw Skorupka <[email protected]> Date: Friday, October 18, 2024 at 1:53 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: dss RESTORE and EAS W dniu 18.10.2024 o 20:03, Steve Estle pisze: > Radoslaw, > > Not something I've tried - my SMS guy is out right now but can talk to him > when he gets back. Not sure we have any EAV volumes yet, although we've > discussed. I have few thoughts: > > 1. If the DSS doc. does not offer any restrictions on restoring as you > indicate (were the backups done as logical or physical?), I'd recommend > reporting this as a potential defect to IBM support. > > 2. Have you tried logical disk to disk DSS copy - does it give same error? > > If this being restored from a physical backup, might try backing up / > restoring from logical backup and see if any difference. > > Hope that helps. > Steve, Thank you for your valuable advices, however the problem seems to be solved by Ernesto's hint. I simply checked RESTORE syntax, but forgot about "patch features" of dss. While haven't tested it I strongly believe the patch is the answer. Thank you Ernesto! BTW: I don't understand patch concept. It could be good solution for beta products or early features. However nowadays I would expect simple switch. It need not to be a keyword of (many) dss commands, it would be enough to have some SETTINGS paragraph with some KEY=value entries. Provided as a part of SYSIN of another DSSPARM file. Yes, SET PATCH does similar job, but "5B FF" is much less intuitive than KEY=value. Regards -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
