Hi listers,
I have found ou a curious behaviour with DDR Restore. If had the following situation. I have backed up a VSE volume with DUMP ALL. At the test recovery site I have restored it with RESTORE ALL. I thought all mdisks started at physical cylinder 1 so I defined the mdisk accordingly in the USER DIRECT, but this volume was historically a fullpack minidisk at the original site. I would have expected that the restore will abend with the last cylinder not being written, but DDR told me that cylinder 0 to 3337 was restored and dump ended with RC=0. The only thing which you could see was the message that source device is larger than input device, but this message appears also if you restore a 50 cyl cms mdisk from a 530RES DDR dump with RESTORE xxx TO yyy to a correctly defined 50 cyl. mdisk. So this cannot be seen as an error message. I have tested it for demonstration with a dump of a 5 cyl mdisk and restored it with RESTORE ALL to a 4 cyl mdisk. My problem is that the customer has no support contract with IBM. I would say this is a defect and want to open a PMR on it, but my customer is surely not willing to pay for that if IBM says that's no defect for whatever reason. I would be interested in Alan's opinion what I should do. I have attached the log of my above mentioned test which you can easily repeat.
-- kind regards Franz Josef Pohlen
13:49:00 z/VM Version 5 Release 3.0, Service Level 0703 (64-bit),
built on IBM Virtualization Technology
13:49:00 There is no logmsg data
13:49:00 FILES: NO RDR, 0002 PRT, NO PUN
13:49:00 LOGON AT 13:49:00 MES TUESDAY 04/08/08
13:49:00 GRAF 0A00 LOGON AS POHLEN USERS = 8
z/VM V5.3.0 2008-02-05 14:42
13:49:00 Standard PROFILE EXEC running ...
DMSERS002E File * NETLOG A not found
DMSACR723I P (SFS1:REXXPROC.) R/O
DMSVML2060I TCPMAINT 592 linked as 0592 file mode W
13:49:00 Standard PROFILE EXEC ended
13:49:01 PROFUSER EXEC running ...
13:49:01 PROFUSER EXEC ended
Pohlen: Ready; T=0.32/0.50 13:49:01
13:49:08 SP CON START *
13:49:11 B
13:49:19
CP Q TA
13:49:19 An active tape was not found.
13:49:25 ATT 181 *
13:49:25 TAPE 0181 ATTACHED TO POHLEN 0181
13:49:30 TERM MODE VM
b
Pohlen: Ready; T=0.01/0.01 13:49:32
def t3390 111 5
13:49:40 DASD 0111 DEFINED
Pohlen: Ready; T=0.01/0.01 13:49:40
DEF T3390 222 4
13:49:47 DASD 0222 DEFINED
Pohlen: Ready; T=0.01/0.01 13:49:47
format 111 t
DMSFOR603R FORMAT will erase all files on disk T(111). Do you wish to continue?
Enter 1 (YES) or 0 (NO).
1
DMSFOR605R Enter disk label:
t111
DMSFOR733I Formatting disk T
DMSFOR732I 5 cylinders formatted on T(111)
Pohlen: Ready; T=0.02/0.10 13:50:02
x y y t
Pohlen: Ready; T=0.03/0.06 13:50:16
att 181 *
13:50:31 HCPATR122E Tape 0181 already attached to POHLEN
Pohlen: Ready(00122); T=0.01/0.01 13:50:31
tape rew
Pohlen: Ready; T=0.01/0.01 13:50:34
ddr
z/VM DASD DUMP/RESTORE PROGRAM
ENTER:
in 111 dasd
ENTER:
out 181 tape (rew
ENTER:
sysprint cons
ENTER:
DUMP ALL
HCPDDR711D VOLID READ IS T111
DO YOU WISH TO CONTINUE? RESPOND YES, NO OR REREAD:
yes
dump all
DUMPING T111
DUMPING DATA 04/08/08 AT 12.51.20 GMT FROM T111
INPUT CYLINDER EXTENTS OUTPUT CYLINDER EXTENTS
START STOP START STOP
0 4 0 4 <============
END OF DUMP <============
ENTER:
in 181 tape (rew
ENTER:
out 222 dasd
ENTER:
restore all
HCPDDR717D DATA DUMPED FROM T111 TO BE RESTORED
DO YOU WISH TO CONTINUE? RESPOND YES, NO OR REREAD:
yes
HCPDDR716D NO VOL1 LABEL FOUND
DO YOU WISH TO CONTINUE? RESPOND YES, NO OR REREAD:
yes
HCPDDR725D SOURCE DASD DEVICE WAS (IS) LARGER THAN OUTPUT DEVICE
DO YOU WISH TO CONTINUE? RESPOND YES OR NO:
yes
RESTORING T111
DATA DUMPED 04/08/08 AT 12.51.20 GMT FROM T111 RESTORED
INPUT CYLINDER EXTENTS OUTPUT CYLINDER EXTENTS
START STOP START STOP
0 3 0 3 <=======
END OF RESTORE <=======
ENTER:
END OF JOB
Pohlen: Ready; T=0.05/1.09 13:52:03
sp con close
