Also don't forget the stand alone ICKDSF IPL tape to init the disk drives
before a stand alone DFDSS IPL to restore the tapes.
Cliff McNeill
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of
Skip Robinson <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 5, 2016 1:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Stand-Alone DSS RESTORE with 3584 Library - How??
One more point on standalone restore. IPLing from a tape volume basically
assumes that the tape is non-labelled. That is, the first record read is
expected to be a bootstrap record. If a tape has labels, the first load will
fail, but the tape will be positioned at the next block. So IPL again (and
maybe again) until the bootstrap record is read.
All of this hinges on being able to use a vanilla uninitialized tape system. I
have no idea whether a drive in an IBM virtual tape system can function without
support software. I suspect that it will work if the IOCDS includes the drive
and chpid connections. That's what you'll need to test in your current
environment.
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J.O.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
323-715-0595 Mobile
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Steve Finch
> Sent: Friday, February 5, 2016 10:57 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Bulk] Re: Stand-Alone DSS RESTORE with 3584 Library - How??
>
> We do the manual cartridge move from a slot to a tape drive on a regular
> basis. Never tried the IPL part
>
> Steve Finch
> Recovery Point Systems
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe
> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2016 3:18 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Stand-Alone DSS RESTORE with 3584 Library - How??
>
> On 2/4/2016 11:58 PM, Crispin Hugo wrote:
> > I have not tried this personally but IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library
> GUI under section Cartridges allows one to select cartridge in Library and
> move it to a specific slot, the slot can be any of the cartridge drives in
> the
> Library. I assume then that one could IPL from the cartridge drive.
>
> An interesting approach! I will research to see if feasible...
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Edward E Jaffe
> Phoenix Software International, Inc
> 831 Parkview Drive North
> El Segundo, CA 90245
> http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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