Escalating incremental copies to full copies

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might escalate an incremental copy request to a full copy request under certain conditions.

When you use FULL NO, the setting of the ESCALATE installation option controls whether escalation occurs. When you use FULL AUTO or CHANGELIMIT,

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ignores ESCALATE. The conditions under which escalation occurs and the impact of the setting of ESCALATE are summarized in the following table. For more information, see the pages shown in the table.

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action for FULL NO, FULL AUTO, and CHANGELIMIT escalations

Incremental copy techniques

Basic installation options description

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Condition causing escalation	Reference	Some content is unavailable due to permissions. action for FULL AUTO and CHANGELIMIT ¹	Some content is unavailable due to permissions. action for FULL NO
Condition causing escalation	Reference		For ESCALATE=NO	For ESCALATE=YES
An incremental copy is prohibited by an entry in the SYSIBM.SYSCOPY table ²	Escalation-due-to-prohibition-by-a-SYSIBM-SYSCOPY-entry	Escalation always occurs. Some content is unavailable due to permissions. issues BMC47312 and creates a full copy.	Escalation is not allowed. Some content is unavailable due to permissions. issues message BMC30576 and return code 8	Escalation is allowed. Some content is unavailable due to permissions. issues message BMC30586 and return code 4.
The target table space or partition is in COPY-pending status²	Escalation-due-to-prohibition-by-COPY-pending-status
The target table space is a 'special case' catalog or directory space ²	Copying-special-case-catalog-and-directory-table-spaces
A specified number of incremental copies has been reached	Escalation-due-to-limiting-the-number-of-incremental-copies		(Not valid for FULL NO)
A specified percentage of changed pages has been reached ³	Escalation-due-to-exceeding-a-percentage-threshold-for-changed-pages		(Not valid for FULL NO)
Point-in-time recovery is done within the copy set (related full and incremental copies) and incremental made with RESETMOD NO or there is only a full copy before the point-in-time recovery.	Escalation-after-a-point-in-time-recovery	Some content is unavailable due to permissions. issues BMC47312 and creates a full copy. If RESETMOD NO is coded, READTYPE FULLSCAN is used.	If RESETMOD NO is coded, READTYPE FULLSCAN is used. Otherwise, escalation is not allowed. Some content is unavailable due to permissions. issues message BMC30576 and return code 8.	If RESETMOD NO is coded, READTYPE FULLSCAN is used. Otherwise, escalation is allowed. Some content is unavailable due to permissions. issues message BMC30586 and return code 4.
A specified minimum number of pages has been reached.	Escalation-due-to-minimum-space-size-MINPAGES	Some content is unavailable due to permissions. makes a full copy if the space or partition has less than the number of pages specified by MINPAGES.	(Not valid for FULL NO)
A day of the week is specified for making full copies	Escalation-due-to-day-of-the-week-FULLDAY	Some content is unavailable due to permissions. makes a full copy. FULLDAY specifies the weekday on which a full copy is to be made; the option takes precedence over all other FULL AUTO or CHANGELIMIT options regardless of the changed pages percentages.	(Not valid for FULL NO)

^{1 The ESCALATE installation option is ignored for FULL AUTO and CHANGELIMIT.}

^{2 If you specify FULL NO, FULL AUTO, or CHANGELIMIT with CUMULATIVE YES, as well as either SHRLEVEL REFERENCE or SHRLEVEL NONE and escalation occurs, any RESETMOD NO specification is automatically changed to RESETMOD YES. If you specify CUMULATIVE NO under the same conditions, a RESETMOD NO specification is not changed.}

^{3 If you specify 0 as the second (highest) value with FULLPCT, escalation will be bypassed for FULLPCT.}

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