Hi Jake, If you don't mind me asking, why GUI? You still need the industrial strength data mover to do the actual backups. I'm picturing somebody sitting in front of a Microsoft-esque "you have 21 hours of backup time left, no wait, 15 minutes, no wait, 14 hours". We have FDR at my current site, and use FDR-instant to flash the volumes to offline clones, then use FDR to dump the offline copies to VTS. Previous site, we used ADRDSSU in conjunction with Flashcopy to flash the volumes to clones, then used dumpconditioning with ADRDSSU to dump the flashed targets to tape.
No GUI, just straightforward ISPF panels to do dataset level recovery for when the developer accidentally whacks his/her critical JCL library, and an automated job builder for if we need to recover multiple volumes in a DR environment. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jake Anderson Sent: Monday, April 7, 2025 8:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] Backup options for z/OS Hello, I am trying to understand the various backup options for mainframe data. So far in my experience I have been using ADRDDSU or FDR to backup z/OS volumes writing to virtual tapes of IBM or DELL. Apart from the above method, Are there any options to trigger or manage a mainframe backup using a GUI(Graphical User Interface). What are the different backup practices of the mainframe is followed ? Please do share with me your experience as it would help me to explore some best practices and efficient ways of backing up the mainframe data. Regards, Jake ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
