Load SAR onto DASD
New installations
Most installations want to place a copy of SAR onto a DASD volume for rapid recovery from system outages due to DASD failures.
Existing installations
You can use this dialog to place SAR onto DASD, or to create a copy of SAR on tape.
Stand Alone Restore (SAR) is the component of FDR that can be IPL’d without an operating system, to restore backups, create backups, or change the volume serial of DASD volumes. SAR and FDRSARLR are documented in Stand-Alone-Loader-Utility.
This dialog generates a batch job stream for the SAR Loader program (FDRSARLR) which loads SAR onto a DASD volume from which it can be IPL’d, and optionally change the SAR default responses to the values you use most often. On DASD, SAR actually occupies no space; it is placed in the “IPL text” area of the label track (Cylinder 0 Track 0) on the volume; you load SAR by IPLing from the DASD volume. This dialog can also be used to copy SAR to a tape (by editing the generated job stream to change the output).
We recommend SAR be loaded onto one or more DASD volumes, preferably several volumes. Be sure to document the SAR DASD addresses and volume serial numbers somewhere convenient in the computer room.
Panel A.I.2 – SAR loader utility
Select option 2 (LOADSAR) on the FDR Installation Options Menu that will bring you to this panel.
SAR Loader Utility – Panel A.I.2
COMMAND ===>
SEL - SELECT SAR DEFAULTS PANEL HELP - TUTORIAL HELP PANELS
OUTPUT DISK DEVICE: (3380/3390)
VOLUME SERIAL ===> REWRITE ===> NO (YES/NO)
INSTALLATION CONTROL LIBRARY DATA SET:
DATA SET NAME ===> 'IDP.ICLFDR54'
FDR PROGRAM LIBRARY DATA SET:
DATA SET NAME ===> 'IDP.MODFDR54'
SYSOUT CLASS ===> *
JOB STATEMENT INFORMATION:
===> //useridA JOB (ACCOUNT),'NAME'
===> //*
===> //*
===> //*
When you have completed the fields shown below, type “SEL” on the command line to display another panel where you can SUBMIT or EDIT the batch FDRSARLR job and optionally set defaults for SAR responses.
Output disk device
Specify the volume serial of the DASD volume where SAR is written. If it already contains an earlier copy of SAR, specify REWRITE as “YES” to allow FDRSARLR to overwrite the earlier version.
Library data set names
If the name of the FDR Installation Control Library (ICL) or program library is not correct, correct them. The ICL contains a copy of SAR used as input to FDRSARLR.
JCL information
Since a batch job stream is generated to execute FDRSARLR, specify SYSOUT CLASS and JOB STATEMENT information appropriate for running the job.