Is this not called ABARS?

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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Darth Keller
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 8:54 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: HMIGRATE in parallel
> 
> Interesting approach -
> 
> If the poster is actually trying to get an application PIT (point in time) 
> backup
> of his application using HSM, the only way I could get that to work here would
> be to flashcopy the whole thing to new names & then run HSM backups
> against those new names.  Then it would no longer matter that HSM single-
> threads everything and it would also take the entire backup process outside
> the critical path.
> 
> Now I've only been watching this thread with 1 eye,  So if I missed something
> already posted, I apologize.
> ddk
> 
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> 
> Glenn
> 
> I think he wants to run wide on the migrates.  So if he submits 10
> migrates, he wants them to run concurrently.  But the OP states it only
> mounts one tape and then all 10 requests are serialized to the one tape.
> 
> And if I understand his requirement - he is using HSM as an application
> backup process in-case of issues during the batch run.  So like doing an
> Imagecopy before batch job runs, then restoring from the imagecopy after
> batch if there is an issue, is what I think he is trying to do.
> 
> I would probably suggest increasing the number of BACKUP versions of the
> file since HSM does quite well at doing a backup when the data changes.
> 
> What I do not know is the environment.  How many tape drives does  he have
> in his shop.  How many can he allocate to DFSMShsm migration.  What his
> overall need is for this type of process.
> 
> Just my thoughts
> 
> Lizette
> 
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