Re: Best Practice Question -- MIDRANGE-L

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Hello Rob,

Am 20.08.2025 um 20:10 schrieb Rob Berendt <robertowenberendt@xxxxxxxxx>:

/tmp is not automatically cleared at IPL time.

I know. Hence my addition that it "often gets erased when rebooting Unix-like OS".

There are numerous things in the IFS which cannot be saved, even if done in a restricted state, because they will be locked by active tasks.

Can't recall what that could be from the last discussion about this topic. Do you have examples at hand?

So, instead of people getting such failure messages in their joblogs IBM started flagging certain directories as *ALWSAV *NO.

Well, that's probably okay if those things are expendable. But from a restore PoV, I'd expect to have the system on DASD in the exact state as it was at save time.

And stuff that will never be backed up successfully on an active system (keeping in mind that, for the ifs, IBM's save while active is a sick joke) is often flagged as *ALWSAV *NO. This often includes certain expendable web logs.

Yes, but that's expected and okay for me.

:wq! PoC

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