REPLACING DAMAGED ARCHPRIM TAPE

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

What are the jobs that should be running to replace a damaged archprim tape  ? 

 

Resolution

 

1) disable the ARCHPRIM by running an IXUPDATE :

RESET KEY=xxxx,DISABLE

2)run a MERGE with PARMS INCLUDE=(ARCHPRIM VOLSER) and PERCENT=0.

The Volser that you specify on the INCLUDE= parm must be the ARCHPRIM volser because that is the volser in all the DSNINDEX records on that tape. The COPY tape will be mounted so that all the unexpired data sets can be Merged to the new output tapes. 

The data sets that are on the old tapes that are EXPIRED will not be moved forward (merged) to the new tape. This is the normal process of the Merge function. The data sets that have expired or were restored will not have a DSNINDEX record in the FILES so there is no way to manage those.