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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories DFSMS DSS
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 6, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

DFSMSdss DUMP & RESTORE without data

Allow DFDSS DUMP & RESTORE to run with a 'NO DATA' option so that all the selected dataset attributes are DUMP'd but without any data.

And then the RESTORE function should have an option to allocate the source datasets within any DUMP (whether they contain data or not) as empty targets but with all the same attributes. The target datasets could be new names as for any other restore. Ideally include an ability to request they're allocated as a percentage of the source size.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 18, 2023

    This feature would be very helpful for things such as new environment builds where the datasets need to be created consistent with the source attributes but then populated with data from a different source.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 7, 2021

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - DFSMS DSS
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - z Systems Software
    Product - z/OS
    Component - DFSMS CVAF/DADSM
    Operating system - IBM z/OS
    Source - None

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 7, 2021

    My preference is to use other verbs instead of DUMP and RESTORE, since you are not really dumping or restoring.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Apr 6, 2021

    Would also be helpful if GDG base attributes could be DUMP'd and the RESTORE to define these.

    GDG definition and empty dataset allocation is already a feature of the DFSMShsm ABARS product which may be portable to DFDSS as ABARS employs DFDSS.

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