Running BMC AMI Copy jobs concurrently

You can copy multiple partitions or data sets of the same table space or multiple data sets of the same index space concurrently by either starting several COPY jobs with each using a unique utility ID and each using the DSNUM option to specify a different partition or data set, or using the MAXTASKS option with GROUP YES. (You can also use the PARALLEL option on the COPY command to have the same effect as the MAXTASKS option.) However, you cannot run multiple copies against the same partition or data set. If your system has enough resources, these methods might run in less elapsed time than a single job that copies all partitions or data sets of the space to the same output data set.

In contrast to IBM Db2 COPY, BMC AMI Copy allows you to specify SHRLEVEL REFERENCE when you make copies of data sets in multi-data-set, nonpartitioned table spaces concurrently.