Hey Ed, Chatted with some DFSMS folks about what you want to do. First, you are correct. The HSM FR support is only for SMS-managed volumes. It is tightly integrated with several SMS constructs for managing the volumes and policy. (In the future, feel free to send me a direct email to save yourself alot of reading :)
Next, for your scenario, we <believe> that it will work if you do the following: 1) Identify your source to target pairings 2) We HIGHLY recommend that you use FC Incremental because it creates a persistent relationship between the source and the target. Because the HSM dump will be done in the standard dump path, it doesn't have the 'smarts' to do things like withdraw a NOCOPY relationship, etc. Also, more later on why it will be very useful. 3) Create the FC with DSS and dump conditioning to the target, and with FCINCREMENTAL 4) I believe that you are all set with adding the FC Target volumes to HSM, setting up the appropriate dump class, dump cycle, etc and having them picked up as a part of autodump / dump command. 5) What makes the dump copies fundamentally different from a standard HSM Dump or an FRBACKUP DUMP - a) DSS is smart enough to know that a FC dump conditioned target volume is being dumped, so the dump copy that it creates will be written with the volser of the source volume and will be created as if it came directly from the source b) HSM is <not> smart enough to know that it is a dump conditioned volume, so the HSM CDS dump record and LIST output will record it as a dump of the target, with the FC target volser. Hence, the recommendation for a persistent relationship between your source and target volumes. Then you can manage the inconsistency between the HSM dump records and which volume was actually dumped. 6) As you indicate, you can use HSM Recover with TOVOLUME to recover directly back to the source. Since the dump volume is actually of the source, all should be well after the recovery ends. The volser will stay the same during the recovery process since the dump tape has the source volser. We believe that you shouldn't have to do a clip or anything after the Recovery. All should be well. There's a lot going on here. If you'd like to set up call to discuss, reach out and I can setup a call with all of the right SMEs to walk you through this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
