How to Restore a DSN for a specific date/time from the FILES information?
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How to Restore a DSN for a specific date/time from the FILES information?

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Article ID: 113728

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Products

Disk Backup and Restore - MVS DISK BACKUP AND RESTORE- ADD-ON OPTIO DISK BACKUP AND RESTORE

Issue/Introduction

How can we create based on Ca Disk FILES RESTORE order for a specific data set at a specific time?

Environment

Release: SMDI3900200-12.5-Disk-Backup and Restore-for z/OS
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Resolution

The best way is to run a LISTD to populate your database using this SYSIN:
LISTD DSN=/,DUP, FIELDS=(ARCDT,ATIME,VOLNO,ARKEY,DSNAM)
Then from this output using a Rexx or whatever generate based on the specific request the RESTORE command with such SYSIN:
RESTORE $AUTORES,DSN=YOURDSN, TIMEDATE=21082017018

Optionally you can rename the restored data set using such SYSIN:
RESTORE $AUTORES,DSN=YOURDSN, TIMEDATE=21082017018,NEWNAME=Userid.RESTORE.TEST2018