Hi, The target of the FC must be an Space Efficient volume. This volumes must be defined in an special way in the disks cabinet (I'm talking about the DS8K IBM cabinets), you can't copy to your old volumes, you need to create new volumes in an extent pool (or repository) specifically created to contain these volumes.
I have no experience in creating JCLs for this purpose, but it looks like you are right with the FCSETGTOK parameter. Also there is a FAILRELATION sub-keyword to indicate the action that the storage facility is to take if the space on the repository volume is exhausted. There is a Redbook available: IBM System Storage DS8000 Series: IBM FlashCopy SE (REDP-4368-00) Greetings, Gonzalo Cengotita 2014/1/20 Dazzo, Matt <[email protected]> > We currently use flashcopy for backups, control cards below. Processing is > instantaneous. It establishes the FC relationship, creating a pointer > table, including bitmap, for target volume. > COPY FULL - > INDDNAME(INVOL1) - > OUTDDNAME(OUTDD1) - > DUMPCONDITIONING - > FCNOCOPY > > Then run backups against the flashed volume > > DUMP FULL - > INDDNAME(INVOL1) - << > Flash Volume > OUTDDNAME(OUTDD1) - << Backup > Tape > OPTIMIZE(4) - > << Read 1 CYL at a time > CANCELERROR > << Cancel if I/O errors > > Then Re-Initializes Flash volumes with ICKDSF (wipes data off and creates > Indexed VTOC) ready for next weeks backups. > > > We will be going to flashcopy SE in the near future. From reading is seems > all I need to add is key word FCSETGTOK(FAIL), indicates flash to fail if > the storage repository is out of space. > > Do we have to initialize flashcopy volumes like previously? > Will we have to change all our current flashcopy jobs or create new ones? > > If anyone could speak about their experiences and how we would have to > change our current process. > > Thanks Matt > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- *Gonzalo Cengotita* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
