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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories DFSMS HSM
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 11, 2019

RELATED IDEAS

Improve the accuracy of FRBACKUP Dump States by not setting initial state to FAILED

Description:
The Fast Replication Dump State value of 'FAILED' can sometime be a false negative. We have encountered circumstances where the dump has not failed,
but the dump state indicates it has failed.


How it works today in the customer environment:

An initiated FR BACKUP DUMP is marked FAILED until the state changes. The state is changed from FAILED when the first volume is successfully dumped.

How its current behavior affects the customer environment.

A FAILED state does not properly describe a Copy pool dump version this has been initiated but not processed. An example of this would be when a dump volume is waiting to be processed in a common dump queue, which is queued behind other volumes.

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     Dec 16, 2019

    The requirement is understood and added to the backlog as an Uncommitted Candidate.
    For client reference, the rationale for setting the initial status to 'Failed' is to handle unexpected error conditions. Should an abend occur immediately after the task starts and HSM is not able to do further processing, the status is guaranteed to show the correct value.
    As soon as the first volume completes successfully, then the state is updated to 'Partial'.
    You are correct that in between the time that HSM initializes the state and the first dump completes successfully that the statue of 'failed' can be misleading.

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