Example 8: Recovering using tape-stacked data sets

Example 8 consists of two jobs. The first job uses the BMC AMI Copy utility to stack three table spaces to different data sets on the same tape volume. The second job uses BMC AMI Recover to recover those table spaces.

Tape stacking refers to copying several small table spaces or table space partitions to different data sets on one or more tape volumes. The advantage of tape stacking is that it reduces the number of tapes needed for your image copies.

BMC AMI Recover dynamically allocates the data set and the tape volumes and avoids excessive rewinding and positioning. You do not need to specify the data sets in the JCL.

Example 8A: Making stacked image copies

The JCL in the following figure makes one full image copy of each of three table spaces, registers them, and writes them to the same cartridge tape.

JCL for making stacked image copies

Example 8B: Recovering with stacked image copies

The JCL in the following figure performs a recovery using the three image copies.

JCL for recovering with stacked cataloged image copies as input