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1. NEW Version FAT PY 4 9 Level 29 click her learn more February 2014 Volume 9 0 FOCUS ON FATS FATAR FATSCOPY New Features User Testimonials Question amp Answers Audit Reports and FATSCOPY Resources FATS FATAR FATSCOPY Version 4 9L28 Now Available Enhancements in this new release include e IMAGE copy for TLMS is now supported In version 4 9 27 IMAGE copy for RMM and CA 1 was added IMAGE copy allows you to make an exact block for block copy of the data from the input volume to the output volume including copying the VOLSER from the input to the output For data files that have their VOLSER locations recorded in an external data base such as CA Views and OAM backup tape files IMAGE allows you to migrate these files to a new tape device without incurring the significant processing overhead of updating the external data base e FATSCOPY can now write audit records to a system logger log stream This allows jobs that are running at the same time to write to a single audit data set instead of each job writing to a separate sequential data set This simplifies managing your audit data and generating reports to satisfy auditing requirements The FATAUDIT utility can produce audit reports from either sequential data sets or from a log stream and write out data from the logger to a sequential data set for long term storage e FDREPORT a companion product from INNOVATION is now available for a 90 day period at no charge2. we could have ended up paying Thousands of dollars more for November s 2013 IBM software monthly maintenance charges submitted the SCRT report tonight and the report shows Data Collected for z OS 100 instead of Data Collected for z OS 88 Anything under 95 is unacceptable A Large University in the MIDWEST In December 2013 a company found that several of their encrypted 9840D tapes had been improperly re used resulting in some of the files on those tapes being overwritten Using FATAR the customer was able to identify which files remained on the tape beyond the overwriting files and the EOD mark and to copy those files to new tapes Since FATAR was able to read the user labels containing the encryption information from the input tape and copy them to the output tape the customer was able to successfully read the recovered data sets A Large U S Telecommunications Company More details on using FATAR in a Virtual Tape environment are described on page 2 Q amp A Many clients are moving to VTS and they are asking the following A year ago we migrated to a virtual tape system VTS Can you explain the benefits or needs for FATS or FATAR with a VTS FATAR functions on a Virtual Tape System 1 Investigating a volume to discover its label type file count DCB characteristics etc and providing a compact summary of the characteristics of all files on the volume 2 Examining the data on a
3. Copy_With_New_Audit txt JOBLIB DD DSN FATCOPY LIBRARY DISP SHR AUDIT1 EXEC PGM FATSCOPY REGION 0M AUDIT DD DSN JAT FATSCOPY AUDITDSN UNIT SYSALLDA DISP NEW CATLG SPACE TRK 5 5 TAPEOUT DD DSN DUMMY DISP NEW KEEP UNIT VTAPE SYSIN DD x COPY SELECT ALLDSN VOL A00001 SELECT ALLDSN VOL B34220 x A second job which appends to that audit data set would change the AUDIT DD to AUDIT DD DSN JAT FATSCOPY AUDITDSN DISP MOD but otherwise looks the same as the first job with new SELECT statements Here is a FATAUDIT job which reads the audit data set to produce a printable report FTP member Write_Audit_Report txt AUDIT2 EXEC POGM FATAUDIT REGION 0M SYSABEND DD SYSOQUT AUDITRPT DD SYSOQUT AUDIT DD DSN JAT FATSCOPY AUDITDSN DISP SHR gt K FATSCOPY Here is a sample of a portion of an Audit Report produced by FATAUDIT TOTAL BLOCKS WRITTEN TOTAL FILES COPIED TOTAL FAILED COPIES TOTAL JOBS EXECUTED 1463991 486 0 46 TOTAL BLOCKS READ 1463991 FATAUDIT DETAIL REPORT JOBNAME JATPAN STEPNAME FATSCOPY RUN DATE 2013303 RUN TIME 145653 CPUID CPUC m TNEUTAINTORMANI ON EEn Teme OUTPUT INFORMATION DATA SET NAME VOLSER FSEQ VSQ M V EXPDATE CAT SCRDATE VOLSER FSEQ VSQ EXPDATE CAT TMS RC REAS NEW NAME BLOCKS BYTES BLOCKS BYTES a JAT EE FATS FILE1 CCRO09 il 1 NO 2019001 YES E10037 1 1 2013304 NO YES 0000 2 0 2 0 JAT EE FATS FILE2 CCRO09 2 1 NO 201900
4. NOT IN SCRATCH STATUS FINAL TOTALS TVVOLSER lt TOTAL VOLUMES NOT IN SCRATCH STATUS FDR400 FDRABR REPORT STANDARD SUMMARIES FDREPORT VER 5 4 80 INNOVATION DATA PR RMM REPORT APPROX SIZE OF ALL DATA SETS NOT EXPIRED amp NOT SCRATCH FINAL TOTALS TDAPRSIZ TDVOLSER Am TOTAL VOLSER TOTAL TERABYTES See pages 6 and 7 for more details on how to use FDREPORT with FATSCOPY A pdf of this newsletter is available at www fdr com FYINewsFATSCOPY pdf CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS 275 Paterson Ave Little Falls NJ 07424 973 890 7300 Fax 973 890 7147 Je INNOVATION E mail support fdrinnovation com sales fdrinnovation com http www fdr com EUROPEAN FRANCE GERMANY NETHERLANDS UNITED KINGDOM NORDIC COUNTRIES ol DATA PROCESSING OFFICES 01 49 69 94 02 089 489 0210 036 534 1660 0208 905 1266 31 36 534 1660
5. to FATSCOPY customers FDREPORT is a tool that can be used to analyze the tapes in your RMM or CA 1 tape environment to see what resources are in use determine what types of data sets you have filter results by creation date expiration date and other criteria and help plan an effective migration strategy FATAR continues to benefit customers who find that their physical tape or VTS DLm data has been corrupted and want to recover as much of the remaining data as possible Many data centers are moving away from using real cartridge tapes and have migrated to virtual tape systems While FATAR has traditionally been used for analyzing and correcting errors found on real tapes FATAR has been used recently to successfully recover data in virtual tape environments In November 2013 a customer was receiving ABENDS when using the IBM Sub Capacity Reporting Tool SCRT with one of their SMF log files Using FATAR the customer could see that the SCRT Sub Capacity Reporting Tool abend was caused by an improper spanned logical record where a record that should have spanned from one block to another was missing one segment of the record A second FATAR job was used to drop the single record that had incomplete segments After the file was copied the SCRT was able to read the file J Thanks for all the help it was very important to have a full month s worth of SMF data available to feed into the IBM Sub Capacity Reporting Tool Without that data
6. 1999 365 I00000 200S 297 202356 ZO o 022 29 103745 100094 55040 FOR CA1 LIST OF VOLUMES amp DATA SETS NOT EXPIRED amp NOT EDM IN VOLSER ORDER VOLSER VOLSTAT NDSNB FU CRDATE CRDAY EXPDAT EXDAY CA 1 DENSITY 800034 2013 LLH 205 20L LLN 160 3590 CART TAPE 800041 7 2010 341 1079 1999 000 65535 3590 CART TAPE 800044 1202286 404 2016 102 873 3590 CART TAPE Sample FDREPORT Summary Reports FDR400 FDRABR REPORT STANDARD SUMMARIES FDREPORT VER 5 4 80 INNOVATION DATA PR RMM REPORT TOTAL VOLUMES NOT IN SCRATCH STATUS FINAL TOTALS TVVOLSER 200287 TOTAL VOLUMES NOT IN SCRATCH STATUS FDR400 FDRABR REPORT STANDARD SUMMARIES FDREPORT VER 5 4 80 INNOVATION DATA PR RMM REPORT TOTAL VOLUMES IN SCRATCH STATUS FINAL TOTALS 61411 jj TOTAL VOLUMES IN SCRATCH STATUS FDR400 FDRABR REPORT STANDARD SUMMARIES FDREPORT VER 5 4 80 INNOVATION DATA PR RMM REPORT APPROX SIZE OF ALL EXPIRED DATA SETS amp NOT SCRATCH FINAL TOTALS TDAPRSIZ 59 704T TDVOLSER 138767 APPROX SIZE OF ALL EXPIRED DATA SETS amp NOT SCRATCH Total Terabytes FDR400 FDRABR REPORT STANDARD SUMMARIES FDREPORT VER 5 4 80 INNOVATION DATA PR RMM REPORT APPROX SIZE OF ALL DATA SETS NOT EXPIRED amp NOT SCRATCH FINAL TOTALS TDAPRSIZ TDVOLSER APPROX SIZE OF ALL DATA SETS NOT EXPIRED amp NOT SCRATCH Total Terabytes BASIC REPORTS Here we show a simple FDREPORT example of GROUPING on the VOLUME STAT
7. 2 YES E10037 2 1 2013304 NO YES 0000 2 0 2 0 FATAUDIT SUMMARY REPORT TOTAL INPUT VOLUMES 25 TOTAL OUTPUT VOLUMES 25 TOTAL BYTES READ 9550256056 TOTAL BYTES WRITTEN 9550256056 l OK but I want to run two or more FATSCOPY jobs at a time Can I write to the same audit data set with copy jobs that are running concurrently You can t use the same sequential audit data set for two jobs which run at the same time There are two options you can use use separate audit data sets and merge them into one Audit Report or use a System Logger log stream to write audit records to a single log stream e One set of copy jobs can use an audit data set MY AUDIT DATASET1 and a second set can use MY AUDIT DATASET2 When you want to produce an Audit Report the FATAUDIT utility can use both audit data sets as input and produce a single Audit Report Here s how you use 2 audit data sets to produce 1 report FTP member Audit_Report_Using_Two_Audit_Datasets txt A y AUDIT EXEC POGM FATAUDIT REGION 0M AUDITRPT DD SYSOQOUT AUDIT DD DSN MY AUDIT DATASET1 DISP SHR E DD DSN MY AUDIT DATASET2 DISP SHR gt K e Instead of writing audit records to a sequential data set FATSCOPY can write audit records to a system logger log stream The z OS system logger is a component of z OS that must be activated and configured If you have configured a log stream to receive FATSCOPY audit records then your copy jobs will look lik
8. 40 2011 NOTE For more information on how to use FDREPORT with FATSCOPY view http www fdr com Using FDREPORT for Tape Migration with FATSCOPY pdf See page 2 on how to access these sample FDREPORT Jobs CHECKPOINT RESTART FATSCOPY Checkpoint Restart examples Q have long running copy jobs that sometimes have to interrupt at the end of my processing window How can I make it easy to pick up where I left off FATSCOPY s checkpoint restart features allow you to stop a running job with an operator command STOP or CANCEL and save the status of the current job in a DSNTABLE data set The DSNTABLE data set saves a list of the files which were selected for the copy job and marks which of those files have been copied A FATSCOPY RESTART job using that DSNTABLE data set loads the list of files skips those which have already been copied and copies the selected files starting with the first non copied file Here s an example of a job which might select a large number of data sets FTP member Large_Copy_Job txt JQOB1 EXEC POGM FATSCOPY REGION 0M FPO EPLLE DD DSN FATSCOPY LIBRARY DISP SHR DSNTABLE DD DSN JAT FATSCOPY RESTART UNIT SYSALLDA E SPACE TRK 15 5 RLSE DISP CATLG TAPEQUT DD DSN DUMMY UNIT VTAPE DISP KEEP SYSIN DD x COPY MULTIFILE YES SELECT CATDSN PROD gt x X The operator stops the job with a STOP command while the 259th selected file is being copied FATSCOPY finishes copying the 259th f
9. NF 1 REPLACE LF 1 B ALL S C HDR1000000000000000000000000000000000 FTP member FATAR_IEHINITT_jcl txt lt LABELS NO tells FATAR to act as if the tape is unlabeled so FATAR will scan the label as if it s ordinary data If the HDR1 label contains a string of zeros a BLOCK MODIFIED message will appear in the SYSPRINT output No blocks are actually modified since there is no TAPEOUT file the input tape is not changed Here is a sample output IEHINITT Job AO rs Ss PART Bee 1 1 80 INPUT LABEL VOLISTKE09 fo VOLUME RABE Ss gt VOLSER STKE09 OWNER 2 80 INPUT LABEL HDR10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 cbidee alldyaN Dass UVa S les oo DSNAME 00000000000000000 SERIAL 000000 VOLSEQ 0000 FILESEQ 00000 CRTDT 000000 EXPDT 000000 SECURITY 0 BLOCKCOUNT 0000000000 BLKID 000A0000 BLOCK MODIFIED ie ee ee e a END OF FILE 1 FILE CONTAINED 2 BLOCKS FATSO22 ANALYSIS TERMINATED AFTER SPECIFIED NUMBER OF FILES FTP member FATAR_IEHINITT_output txt lt Q relabeled 100 tapes One of those tapes was not a scratch tape and should not have been relabeled How can I find which of these tapes was the volume I want to keep so that I can pull it out of the system for later recovery A You can use FATAR to search each tape for an identifying string which you expect to find on the Original volume This string will be located somewhere after the overwriti
10. US MASTER SCRATCH Grouping can be used with many other fields such as expiration date creating program job last reference date and more With groupings you can get a good overview in Sub totals per grouping MASTER SCRATCH and the final totals LIST ALL TAPES GROUPED PER VOLUME STATUS SCRATCH EXTRACT FILE 2013 329 VOLSER VOLSTAT EXPDAT LRDATE LOCATION 100029 SCRATCH 2009 190 AWAATL1 100060 SCRATCH 2011 274 AWAATL1 104610 SCRATCH AWAATL1 SUBTOTAL TVSTATUS SCRATCH TVVOLSER LIST ALL TAPES GROUPED PER VOLUME STATUS MASTER EXTRACT FILE 2013 329 VOLSER VOLSTAT EXPDAT LRDATE LOCATION 100048 MASTER 2010 062 2010 057 AWAATLI1 100049 MASTER 2007 310 2013 239 AWAATLI1 100050 MASTER 2009 295 2009 290 DISTANT FINAL TOTALS TVVOLSER VOLUME USAGE REPORT EXTRACT FILE 2013 326 VOLSER VOLUSEBYTES FU 200002 650M 200003 789M 200004 650M 200005 102M 200007 789M 200011 000M 200015 438M 200017 544M 200021 859M 200022 009M 200024 0 000M 200025 789M 253782 082M 253783 029M TOTAL VOLUMES 253784 022M 253785 197 869M 8 FINAL TOTALS TVVOLSER _ 5203 TVUSEBYT 38548 046G cf TOTAL GIGABYTES You should use this report to identify tapes that have a history of errors You might want to process these tapes separately TAPES WITH PERMANENT ERRORS EXTRACT FILE 2013 326 VOLSER LWRDAT LRDATE PERMRDERR PERMWTERR 201638 2006 200204 2010 201450 2010 202032 2010 2027
11. Version FATSCOPY How To Guide V49L28 December 5 2013 pdf Watch the FATSCOPY Product Demo http www fdr com portfolio products demo cfm Download the FATSCOPY Quick Start guide http www fdr com Manuals CurrentVersion FATSCOPY Quick Start Guide V49L28 December 5 2013 pdf View the FATSCOPY Concepts amp Facilities Guide http www fdr com concepts FATSCOPYCFG index html The jobstreams and output for examples shown in this newsletter are available from the Innovation FTP site e Go to www fdr com e Click on FTP login and Enter your access code if you don t have one you can request one on this webpage e Click on the Download directory then Tech_Support_Samples FATSCOPY_Examples Feb2014 e For FDREPORT examples go to Tech_Support_Samples FDREPORT_FATSCOPY_Examples Q amp A FATAR examples identifying overwritten tapes accidentally used IEHINITT to re initialize several of my tapes making the files on those tapes inaccessible If suspect that certain tape volumes were reinitialized how can I check them to see if they were so that I can pull them out of the system for later recovery A You can use FATAR to search your tapes for the signature of an IEHINITT job IEHINITT wipes out the data in the first HDR1 label replacing it with zeros You can use the following job to find out if a tape has been reinitialized with IEHINITT LSTEP1 EXEC PGM FATAR REGION 0M 7TISYSIN DD x ANALYZE LABELS NO
12. allation MAINFRAME SERVER SUPPORT ZEC12 Mainframe Server Support requires no changes to the supported Innovation Products As of February 2014 scene 1 10 1 12 z OS 1 13 z OS 2 1 PRODUCT Minimum Minimum Latest Version FDR V5 le i V5 4 74 V5 4 78 V5 4 80 COMPAKTOR V5 4 74 V5 4 74 V5 4 78 V5 4 80 FDRCRYPT V5 4 80 FDREPORT V5 4 80 FDRViEWS V5 4 80 FDRINSTANT V5 4 80 FDRDRP V5 4 80 FDRREORG V5 4 74 V5 4 74 V5 4 78 V5 4 80 FDRPAS V5 4 76 V5 4 76 V5 4 78 V5 4 80 FDRPASVM V5 4 80 V5 4 80 V5 4 80 V5 4 80 FDRMOVE with FDRPAS V5 4 76 V5 4 76 V5 4 78 V5 4 80 FDRERASE for z OS V5 4 70 V5 4 70 V5 4 70 V5 4 70 FDRSOS V5 4 76 V5 4 76 V5 4 78 V5 4 80 FATS FATAR FATSCOPY V4 9 20 V4 9 20 V4 9 25 V4 9 28 IAM V8 1 18 V8 1 18 V9 0 04 V9 1 01 UPSTREAM CLIENT V3 6 0 V3 6 0 V3 6 0 V3 7 28 UPSTREAM for System z V3 6 0 V3 6 0 V3 6 0 V3 7 28 UPSTREAM z OS UNIX V3 5 0 V3 5 0 V3 6 0 V3 7 1 UPSTREAM Director 2 2 e ee UPSTREAM z OS Storage V3 6 0 V3 6 1 V3 7 0 V3 8 0 UPSTREAM Reservoir V3 7 2e For the most up to date information visit the website at http www fdr com osreq cfm NOTE While prior versions might still work the versions listed are the minimum supported versions VISIT US AT SHARE Technology Exchange March 10 12 2014 Anaheim CA EMC World 2014 May 5 8 2014 Las Vegas NV SHARE Technology Exchange August 4 6 2014 Pittsburgh PA WITH FATSCOPY FDREPORT A Companion Tool Avai
13. e FTP member Copy_Using_System_Logger txt JOBLIB DD DSN FATCOPY LIBRARY DISP SHR AUDIT 4 EXEC PGM FATSCOPY REGION 0M 7 TAPEOUT DD DSN DUMMY DISP NEW KEEP UNIT VTAPE ZISYSIN DD x ELECT ALLDSN VOL A00001 S COPY AUDITLOG MY FATSCOPY LOGSTRM J SELECT ALLDSN VOL B34220 and audit records are written to the log stream Concurrent jobs can write to the same log stream The FATAUDIT utility can read audit records from the log stream and produce Audit Reports PORTS FDREPORT is a planning tool which can be used with RMM or CA 1 to query the tape management database using a broad range of powerful selection parameters FDREPORT is available to FATSCOPY customers at no charge for 90 days FDREPORT generates reports on the tape environment that you can use to determine which volumes you need to copy Sample FDREPORT volume usage reports FOR RMM AND CA1 RMM REPORT LIST OF VOLUMES amp DATA SETS NOT EXPIRED IN VOLSER ORDER VOLSER DATA SET NAME EXPDAT EXDAY FU APPROXSIZE FILE SIZE PHYSICALSIZ 200154 A03 A04345 RSDGRO7 C109244 T023014 E2014338 2014 345 12619 874M 12619 612M 643825 664K 200159 A03 A04345 RSDBK07 C109244 T023015 E2014338 2014 345 12619 874M 12619 612M 13631 488K 200161 ANICO1 SMF ESA JAN12 2014 062 23410 199M 23409 459M 5249 171M RMM REPORT VOLUMES NOT IN SCRATCH STATUS VOLSER VOLSTAT CRDATE EXPDAT RTDATE RETENTVALU DSCOUNT PREVOL NXTVOL OWNER FAT49P ZMOS OGS o os 65N200se095 FDR54P 2008 088
14. ile and then terminates writing out the data set JAT FATSCOPY RESTART The following job is used to continue copying starting with the 260th file FTP member Restart_Job txt EF JOB EXEC POGM FATSCOPY REGION 0M STEPLIB DD DSN FATSCOPY LIBRARY DISP SHR DSNTABLE DD DSN JAT FATSCOPY RESTART DISP SHR fF TAPEOUT DD DSN DUMMY UNIT VTAPE DISP KEEP SYSIN DD x COPY RESTART gt K Q amp A I want to combine as many files onto a single tape or set of tapes but want to do this in separate jobs run over the course of a week How can I do this without having to manually keep track of where the output files have been written c You can use FATSCOPY s LASTAPE feature When you use LASTAPE for the first time in a copy job such as in this example FTP member Copy_Using_LASTAPE txt FATSCOPY EXEC POGM FATSCOPY REGION 0M STEPLIB DD DSN FATSCOPY LIBRARY DISP SHR APEOUT DD DSN DUMMY UNIT VTAPE LABEL SL YS IN DD x JIT 5 COPY EXPDTGROUP 999 LASTAPE MY LASTAPE DATASET S S ELECT ALLDSN VOL CCR009 ELECT ALLDSN VOL 001122 NUMVOLS 10 EXPDTGROUP 999 tells FATSCOPY to stack as many files onto as few tapes as possible FATSCOPY catalogs a dummy file with a name you choose as the LASTAPE parameter at the end of the last output tape in that copy job The next time you run a copy job using the same LASTAPE file name FATSCOPY determines that the LASTAPE file already exists finds out which volume it is on and conti
15. lable with FATSCOPY FDREPORT is a planning tool which can be used with RMM or CA 1 to query the tape management data base using a broad range of powerful selection parameters FDREPORT generates reports on the tape environment that you can use to determine which volumes you need to copy Sample selection criteria e Data sets expiring after a certain date e Data sets created within a specified date range e Data sets created by specified programs 4 61 For an EMC DLm FDREPORT can generate scratch volume reports that can be used as input to the DLm utility for scratching the backing disk space of logical tape volumes that are in scratch status FDREPORT is available to FATSCOPY customers at no charge for 90 days FDREPORT helps to properly plan a customer s migration FDREPORT can report on e How many tapes are e Active In scratch status e Managed by an EDM e of space used on each tape e Number of tapes and capacity expiring in nnn days You can generate these reports from the customer s active RMM CA 1 data base You can also create an extract file from the tape management data base allowing you to generate reports on your own system instead of at the customers site This extract file is very helpful for those 3rd parties VARs that are contracted to do a tape migration Sample FDREPORT Summary Reports FDR400 FDRABR REPORT STANDARD SUMMARIES FDREPORT VER 5 4 80 INNOVATION DATA PR RMM REPORT TOTAL VOLUMES
16. ng label The original volser will be found in the file labels and you can scan for that For example to look for volume STKE10 use STEP1 EXEC PCM FATAR REGION 0M 7ISYSIN DD x ANALYZE LABELS EOD LBLPRT FORMAT REPLACE LF ALL B ALL S C STKE10 FTP member FATAR_find_vol_jcl txt amp LABELS EOD tells FATAR to skip past the EOD mark written when you relabeled the tape before searching for the residual data remaining on the tape The file HDR and EOF labels will be displayed in the SYSPRINT output with a BLOCK MODIFIED message if the string STKE10 is found No blocks are actually modified since there is no TAPEOUT file the input tape is not changed FTP member FATAR_find_vol_output txt lt gut Q I am setting up a complex migration project How can I keep a record of which data sets and volumes have been copied without having to save and sort through hundreds of job logs A FATSCOPY can write records to an audit data set which contains information on the data sets copied the input and output volumes expiration dates etc by that job A second copy job can append to that audit data set and then a third and so forth You can run the FATAUDIT utility at any time which reads the audit data set and formats out a report displaying the files copied and summary information for all of the jobs which were recorded in that audit data set Here s an example of a job which writes to a new audit data set FTP member
17. nues to write files on that volume At the end of the job it recatalogs the dummy file at the new end of the output tape You can repeat this to keep adding files to the volume you have been writing to Q have ranges of input volsers want to copy to a single high capacity output tape How can I do this 7 The FATSCOPY keywords NUMVOLS to specify a range of consecutive volsers and EXPTDGROUP 999 to stack all data sets onto as few volumes as possible make this easy to do FTP member Stacking_Volume_Ranges txt FATSETUP EXEC PGM FATSCOPY REG ION 0M STEPLIB DD DSN FATSCOPY LIBRARY DISP SHR TAPEOUT DD DSN DUMMY UNIT MYTAPE DISP KEEP Z SYSIN DD ox COPY EXPDTGROUP 999 SELECT ALLDSN VOL 003200 NUMVOL SELECT ALLDSN VOL 003400 NUMVOL X 0 lt This will select volser 003200 to 003299 S 10 S 5 0 This will select volser 003400 to 003449 Q amp A I have a tape backed TS7740 virtual tape device want to make backup copies of the logical volumes in the VTS while minimizing the number of physical tape mounts What is the best way to do this with FATSCOPY FATSCOPY has two keywords PHYSVOL and ALLPHYS which allow you to select and copy all of the logical volumes from a single physical volume in a single job If you Know the physical volser you want to copy from use PHYSVOL If you know the logical volser of one logical volume on the physical tape use ALLPHYS Here s an example for when you have a logical v
18. olser and you want to find and copy all the logical volumes on the same physical back end tape FTP member Copy_Using_IBM_PHYSVOL txt fi oles EXEC POGM FATSCOPY REGION 0M FOTEP LIE DD DSN FATSCOPY LIBRARY DISP SHR FA TAPEOUT DD UNIT OUTDEV DSN DUMMY DISP KEEP MAPTAPE DD UNIT INPUTDEV DEFER DISP CATLG DSN MY MAPTAPE FILE LABEL SL E DCB RECFM F LRECL 80 BLKSIZE 80 TRTCH NOCOMP SYSIN DD x COPY VIRTTYPE IBM SELECT ALLDSN ALLPRYSs CCRO 4 2 gt K The MAPTAPE data set is used to communicate tape mapping information between the VTS and FATSCOPY FATSCOPY will find out which physical volume that logical volume CCR012 is located on and select and copy all the logical volumes on that physical volume NOTE a similar function is available for Oracle StorageTek tape backed virtual tape devices UPDATES This table shows for each current release of z OS the minimum levels of each Innovation product that should be installed Use the table when upgrading your z OS system to verify that you have the correct Innovation software in use If not you should install the latest version If you already are using the indicated minimum level you may wish to install the latest version anyway in conjunction with the Operating System upgrade If not please review the Product Notes that follow the table on our website at www fdr com osreq cfm for ZAPs that may be required depending on the hardware and software in use at your inst
19. volume 3 Verifying that certain data fields contain valid data 4 Creating a backup copy of any volume or multi volume set of tapes even if multiple files exist on the volume FATAR can be used to make a backup physical copy of a virtual tape volume 5 Verifying that a data set is properly formatted every block is checked against its DCB info 6 Correcting invalid data by creating a copy of the input volume s with the bad data corrected or dropped 7 Creating a copy of a volume that was not properly closed such as during a system failure 8 Replacing volumes with small blocksizes with copies using a larger blocksize reducing elapsed and CPU times of applications that read that data 9 Making an image copy an exact bit for bit copy of a tape volume 10 Detecting and correcting invalid variable spanned records An example of this procedure can be found on the Innovation FTP site http www fdr com ftp ftp cfm in the file Public Download FATS_FATAR_V49 FATAR example correct invalid variable spanned records pdf USER EXPERIENCES See the two recent user experiences described on page 1 on how FATAR a users see the benefits of using FATAR for modifying corrupted tape files ee FATS CORY RESOURCES mm Download the FATSCOPY User Manual http www fdr com Manuals CurrentVersion FATS FATAR FATSCOPY V49L28 December 5 2013 pdf How to build a FATSCOPY JCL view the link below http www fdr com Manuals_ Current
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