On Jun 3, 2014, at 2:23 PM, Pfister, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's what I figured the answer would be. So then my question becomes this > (if there are any FDR users out there)...I am using FDRABR to backup approx. > 197 volumes to a single T10K tape. With our old JCL it was using a proc for > each individual volume. I have modified it to use the FDRABR.LASTTAPE.WEEKLY > DD for the tape, so FDR internally handles the labeling. We append 5 extra > datasets to the end of this tape, some using FDR and some as an IEBCOPY. I > want to be able to continue to do this, without the need to necessarily know > how many files I already have. I could count the files and just use N+1 for > the sequencing at the end of the tape, but I was trying to figure out if > there was a more robust way that would not require me manually making the > change each time I add/remove a volume from my backup. Any suggestions? I was looking into something similar recently. As I understand it, for the FDRABR.LASTAPE.* feature to work you don’t want to put anything on the tape but FDRABR backups. I ended up just using a separate tape for the additional files I wanted. -- Curtis Pew ([email protected]) ITS Systems Core The University of Texas at Austin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
