How to take backups of many datasets at once?

Avinash Kumar · New User Joined: 20 Feb 2007 Posts: 9 Location: Noida

I want to take backups of some 15-16 datasets(PDS & PS) in their respective datasets by just specifying the highest level qualifier.
For example: By specifying AVINASH.* , all the datasets having this highest level qualifier should be backed up in thier respective backup datasets(created at runtime). Please help me out. I have used the ADRDSSU utility but it doesn't working on my installation.

prav_06 · Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:17 pm

Avinash,

Try this utility ADRDSSU, do a search for this pgm in the forum or google u will find the solution.

Thamilzan.

guptae · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:45 am

Hi There,

Topic is already discussed

www.ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=18190&highlight=adrdssu

superk · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:27 pm

If you're not going to use ADRDSSU, then you probably need to write your own process. It seems like a relatively trivial and painless task:

1. You'll have to figure out what program or utility you're going to use to do the backups (IEBGENER, SORT, IDCAMS, PKZIP, IEBCOPY, FAVER, XRC, etc.).

2. Create a list of all the datasets that qualify with the specified high-level qualifier.

3. Build the utility control statements as necessary. You may also have to build JCL.

4. Submit your process and watch it go!

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:31 am

Hello,

What does this

William Thompson · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:37 am

I think it was specifically banned for this class exercise.....

superk · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:40 am

Seems to me that ADRDSSU is the type of utility that a sysprog would WANT to lock down. I would think that it could be very dangerous in the wrong hands.

More specifically, though, why aren't these people going to their storage administrators and discussing these issues with them?

William Thompson · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:44 am

In the past day or so, there have been several threads requiring HLQ backups without ADRDSSU from people whose location is Noida.

Draw your own conclusions....

superk · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:05 am

Same as last weeks' questions concerning Abend resolution?

(They'll be banned if I discover that they're students or if they're somehow working together).

William Thompson · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:33 am

And I thought going from "sour puss" to "chrome dome" would have improved your disposition.....

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:27 am

Danger - Will Thompson - Danger

Ooops - wrong Will

William Thompson · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:43 am

Dick,

I have always been a bit of a "chain puller", gotten my face punched for it a number of times

, and I do not give a darn.

Without humor, what's the point....

superk, without any input from me, picked his avatars. I don't know if there is something Freudian there

, but I believe we all make choices and live with them, right or wrong, good or bed, we all live with our choices.

Soon, I'll continue my vegestative state into some avatars, but my choices will be mine.

BTW, the Danger - Will Thompson - Danger" was great!

Bill

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:08 am

Hi Bill,

That wasn't a caution - just a funny.

Saw Robbie
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Saw Will ...son
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Said hmmmm. . . gotta do it

d

William Thompson · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:16 am

I know, I saw it as "just a funny"....

But, you kinda realize that a kid who grew up with Don Rickles as his hero, would get the rough edge of a lot of people while growing up....