Copy Dynam/T controlled IDCAMS multi-file tapes to a VTL

Products

• Dynam for VSE
• Dynam VSE Option

Issue/Introduction

We have replaced our tape robot with a VTL (Virtual Tape Library).  Although, some tapes with a long retention have been successfully copied to the VTL, there are some multi-file volumes with multiple IDCAMS catalog backups we have not been able to copy.

Is there a Dynam/T Utility that can be used to copy this volumes ?

 

Environment

Component: DYNTVM

Resolution

NO, there is no Dynam/T utility to do the copy.

 

A secured way to achieve what you want to do is to restore the backups (eventually on a temporary catalog) back to a disk and than back it up again using the new devices. The problem is not PIOCS, but the fact that there are embedded "TM" (Tapemarks) in the middle of data.