I had this problem years ago. If I remember correctly I restored the
components of the VSAM dsn (.DATA & .INDEX) and then I recataloged the
cluster.You have to ensure that the right cluster name is used. I have seen
strange VSAM dsn names used for the cluster but no matching name for the
components.
Willie
On Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 01:07:37 a.m. EST, Brian Westerman
<000006ba4ed225c9-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
RESTORE -
INDDNAME(TAPE) OUTDDNAME(DASD1) -
DATASET(INCLUDE(**)) LOGICALVOLUME(111111) -
REPLACE
The following data sets cannot be processed by physical data set DUMP or
RESTORE operations:
VSAM data sets not cataloged in an integrated catalog facility catalog.
Page, swap, and SYS1.STGINDEX data sets.
So, if you are doing a physcial dump (probably dump full) then the VSAM dataset
you are trying to restore likely doesn't exist in your current catalog
structure. You could however restore the entire volume and do a dataset copy
from volume to volume and catalog it then during the copy operation.
The reason it won't work if it doesn't already exist in your catalog structure
is that it can't get the data from the VVDS of the volume you are restoring
from and it can't see it in your BCS, so it doesn't have enough information to
create the valid dataset. If you r estore the volume first, it will be able to
get the needed info from the VVDS of that volume when it copies the dataset to
the "new" volume.
If you don't want to have to operate in that manner, then you would need to
change your backup process to do logical backups instead of physical ones.
Or, if you have HSM, you could use HSM to do the volume backups and dumps and
then you can restore from those.
Brian
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