Re: Unattended backup

Traditionally (times change), backup was performed late Saturday night.
That could be changed. May have to be. One option being explored is
telling people that system will go down during daytime for backup. Might
not like that. They want to hurry and finish accounts on it.

If unattended need to be run from the console, somebody could enter command
during Friday and it would tke off on Saturday night. I forgot to ad that
the inactive time would also need to be set to *NOMAX and restored
. People walk away from sessions and leave protected information
displayed. Bad for a hospital.

John McKee


On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Why isn't the up to 24hr delay of GO SAVE good enough?

That automatically shuts down into restricted state.

Personally, I do a RTVCLSRC on QMNSRBND, that's where the option 21 - Save
entire System is done.

I call it SAVESYSTEM, added some code to cleaning shut down our system jobs
and and built a command front end for it.

You'll want to also want to remove the parm and add
CHGVAR VAR(&OPTION) VALUE('QMNSAVE')

You end up with a program that display's the save entire system screen, and
you can specify the time to start.

Charles



On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 4:29 PM, John McKee <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Still riding system to oblivion. We >may< be losing our only opportunity
for an attended backup every other week. I have been asked to explore
alternatives.

No money.

I read in Infocenter that GO SAVE 21 has a capability to be set up to 24
hours in the future. Not a scheduled job, just sits in DLYJOB. The
thought occurred to me of writing a CL that would be submitted to
controlling subsystem (BCTL in our case) which would end to restricted
state and perform backup. Just a little afraid of that. If something
failed, with no workstation available, how could anybody know?

I retrieved the source for the GO SAVE 21 CLP, QMNSAVE. Two parms are
passed, &DFT and &CANCEL DFT has a length of 118, but the defaults data
area has a length of 200. I am assuming that is just a quirk, as the

data

area is blank beyond 120 or so.

It looks like the CaNCEL parm is populated and sent back.

I am thinking that this retrieved source could be modified to have no
parameters. Just do RTVDTAARA and run the commands. Add an appropriate
DLYJOB at the top so it could be started from the console and it would

wait

until the appropriate time. Would need to also end the online system
before subsystems are ended. I have that code already.

Final piece is to get the media library to pull tapes as needed. I

presume

the changes to accomplish that are made through the front panel? This is
3590 E11.

Gets a bit more confusing: We have a single 3590. yet a WRKCFGSTS *DEV
TAP* shows:

TAPMLB01 VARIED ON
TAPMLB02 VARIED OFF
TAP35 VARIED ON
TAP35OLD VARIED OFF

TAPMLB01 was created by auto config. It shows device type 3590 E11.

This

shows resource of TAP01 deallocated.

TAPMLB02 has *RSRCNAME for device type and model. No resources listed.

Can't vary on TAPMLB02 after vary off of TAP35. I am not surprised,

based

on no resoueces.

I do not know why there are two MLBs. My thought is both are

"incorrect".

Many years ago, there was a TAP01.

Ran WRKHDWRSC TYPE(*STG), TAPMLB01 is only tape library.

Was media library even set up correctly? It has never been used, as far

as

I know.

I can add config source if it will make any sense.

John McKee
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