Getting started with FATSCOPY

FATSCOPY is BMC Software consolidation, conversion, and migration tool for z/OS Tape Media, and is part of the FATS/FATAR/FATSCOPY family of products. FATSCOPY is a full-featured tape copy utility to:

  • Automate the stacking of data sets by copying files from several underutilized or smaller volumes onto a smaller number of output tapes
  • Migrate data sets from one device type to another
  • Select (by volser or data set name mask) data sets to be copied, and apply additional filtering to limit the data sets selected by criteria such as job name, creation date, expiration date, etc. (unlike FATAR, where you must always directly specify which volsers to process)
  • Make image (exact bit-for-bit) copies of volumes
  • Use a different block size on the output tape (REBLOCK function)
  • Use different names for the output data sets (RENAME function)
  • Copy tapes from some proprietary products, such as ABR Archive backups and HSM ML backups, that maintain information about the location of data sets in external data bases
  • Set the expiration dates of input data sets after they have been copied so they will be expired by your tape management system
  • Update the tape management information for the output data sets, copying information from the tape management records for the input data sets

Important

A product license for FATSCOPY  includes a license for FATAR and FATS.

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