I'm currently investigating the use of DFDSS DUMP PATH to secure data held in UNIX files and folders.
As far as I can see, I have to specify the WORKINGDIRECTORY to establish the starting point for the DUMP operation, then use INCLUDE to _explicitly_ specify the files I want. The available documentation states: "DFSMSdss does not provide wildcard support when processing UNIX files." which, for my purposes, is a complete show-stopper. The subject UNIX folder contain many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of individual files and sub-folders (and sub-sub-folders, etc). What I want to do is to dump the complete contents of a UNIX folder in a way analogous to dumping all z/OS files with a common set of HLQs. I can see a possible method of including a massaged version of 'ls' output in the INCLUDE parameter, but I don't see this as a particularly workable solution. Am I reading things wrongly and missing a vital point here? Does anyone know if wildcard support is something that will be made available in the future? Also, with a DUMP of data comes the requirement to be able to RESTORE it to - possibly - a different WORKINGDIRECTORY, but I haven't got that far yet. Regards Sean ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
