GROUP YES indicates that the Object List should be processed as a group and share a common consistent point. GROUP YES is implied when a single COPY command is followed by multiple TABLESPACE or INDEXSPACE option statements or when INDEXES YES is coded.
Important
When using GROUP YES with SHRLEVEL CHANGE, you must code a QUIESCE BEFORE or QUIESCE AFTER if you want to establish a common point of consistency before or after the copy.
BMC AMI Copy processes a group at a time. A new group is not started until the previous one completes. (For more information, see TASK.)
STARTMSG ‘ text ’
When you use SHRLEVEL CONCURRENT, use STARTMSG to write a message (BMC47497) to the MVS system log when BMC AMI Copy/Snapshot initialization has successfully completed. You can use this feature to trigger the submission of jobs that you want to run concurrently (SHRLEVEL CONCURRENT) with the BMC AMI Copy job.
text is a character string of your choice of up to 50 characters and must be enclosed in single quotes. Strings over 50 characters are truncated. No quotes must appear within the text string.
The message has the following format:
BMC47497 SNAPSHOT STARTED: 'text'
STARTMSG is valid only with GROUP YES.
For more information about using GROUP and STARTMSG, see Making-SHRLEVEL-CONCURRENT-copies-Snapshot-Copies.
