On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 8:51 AM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I know that I should ask Sungard this question. But I must work > through our D.R. Coordinator (in-house) who is being a bit obstinate about > asking. > > I have an in-house written UNIX program. The reason I say that it is UNIX > is because it is designed to be run from the UNIX shell and writes its > output to "stdout" and "stderr", rather than using DCBs. > > Does anyone out there know if the "z/OS floor system" which Sungard > provides to do restores has UNIX completely available? That is, can I put > my program in a z/OS UNIX file on the floor system and run it? And I guess > that I should also ask if the "normal" z/OS UNIX utilities, in particular > "awk", are available as well. > > We used to have a product called DBS. This product would generate the > ADRDSSU job streams to restore our disk volumes. Where it was useful was > that it would pick up an existing volser pattern and use those volumes as > the "restore to" volsers in the generated JCL. This really saved time over > us finding and typing in these volsers in the restore JCL by hand. I have a > UNIX program which would make selecting the DASD volsers onto which to > restore easier to find. And I could then use "awk", or maybe REXX, to > generate the ADRDSSU job JCL from this list. > A light belated came on in my poor excuse for a mind. We have a "disaster recover" volume which we restore first at D.R. That volume contains all our restore JCL & data sets. So I just created an HFS (not zFS) filesystem on that volume. I used HFS because it is not VSAM and so is easier to recatalog on the floor system. When we get to Sungard, I'll just mount it somewhere in the existing UNIX filesystem (maybe somewhere in /var or even make a directory in /tmp & mount it there). > > -- > We all have skeletons in our closet. > Mine are so old, they have osteoporosis. > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > -- We all have skeletons in our closet. Mine are so old, they have osteoporosis. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
