Re: Opt 21 Restore

On 11/4/2014 5:22 PM, Ted Breedon wrote:

Hey guys,

I'm trying to teach myself how to do an option 21 restore with v7r1 over IVM. I've been working

on windows and linux for almost I decade and I have to say this is probably one of the most
difficult things I've ever done.

So did you RTFM? Debbie spends a lot of time making that as step by step as possible. You find your scenario and work the list.

Now it may just be me but I've done a bazillion of these and do so in my sleep. It's easy. :-)

What's confusing to me is that I see that PTFs don't carry over?

> Before doing the restore I'm 100% certain I made all PTFs permanent.

They do carry over. Once you're all done restoring they will be as before. Be aware though that if you DID fail to set the PTFs permanent then the initial part of the install will be on the "A" side which is Perm PTFs only.


Also, my virtual optical device didn't carry over either but I can't create OPTVRT01
because the name already exist? What the hell is going on?

Now now, this one is easy and documented. When you create a virtual optical or virtual tape device the required resources are created at the same time. When you restore the O/S level device OPTVRT01 you haven't run the CRTDEVOPT command so the underlying support bits didn't get created. Simply do DLTDEVD OPTVRT01 followed by CRTDEVOPT OPTVRT01 ... and then vary it on. Done.

Also, how on earth am I supposed to figure out what didn't fully restore? The job log in the
green-screen is absolutely enormous.

My first suggestion would be to search for the words "not restored". Keep looking until you find the number of items not restored that matches the list for each library.

Most of the time when you see a lot of objects not restored you have an environment with many cross library logical files and journals that are not properly placed. This is just one of the reasons why you should ALWAYS test your restore.


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