Re: flash copy and relationships, using HSM for dump to tape.

2007-07-15 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Andrew, Re your DFSMSdss remarks, does FlashCopy (or z/OS) remember all the tracks it was initially asked to copy, or just those tracks that are still in a pending copy state? If just those still pending copy, then I would think VTOCIX or VVDS tracks would also be an issue. If the basis for

Re: flash copy and relationships, using HSM for dump to tape.

2007-07-13 Thread Andrew N Wilt
When you use ICKDSF to init a volume, it will issue an FCWITHDRAW for that volume just as Joel said. Since the volume is newly inited, then there is no reason to have a relationship as all those tracks are free space. If you are using DFSMSdss to dump, we have an FCWITHDRAW keyword that requests

Re: flash copy and relationships, using HSM for dump to tape.

2007-07-12 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Interesting. I have always thought in terms of stopping the COPY relationship and any unnecessary track copy activity as soon as possible when the target was no longer needed, so it had never occurred to me to re-initialize the FlashCopy target first and then try to do the FCWITHDR. We