CA1 - What files cannot be copied with FILECOPY?

Products

• CA 1 Flexible Storage
• CA 1 Tape Management - Copycat Utility
• CA 1 Tape Management - Add-On Options
• TLMS Tape Management

Issue/Introduction

Under what conditions can FILECOPY not be used?

 

 

Environment

Copycat 12.0/ Ca1 /TLMS..00200-12-TLMS-TAPE MANAGEMENT

Resolution

FILECOPY has an issue with a few applications. The function of FILECOPY is to take single or multiple file tapes and merge them together. Some applications do not use standard OS file labels when data is added to the tape. They keep track of the volser, the starting block number of your data, and how many blocks of data you have. DFHSM is one example that operates in this type of file structure. DFHSM volumes are tracked as an EDM within tape management and secondary information is not stored.
Applications that should not be used with Filecopy are as follows:

1. Foreign volumes to CA TLMS / CA1.
2. DFHSM backups.
3. IBM/Tivoli ADSM (TSM) tapes.
4. IBM DB2 tapes (if DB2 doesn't catalog them).
5. SAS tapes that are multi-volume.
6. CA-Dispatch (can be used with TAPECOPY).
7. Any datasets identified in the EDM member of PPOPTION.