It's pretty simple if you are only using the snap to create a full volume dump and you can use FlashCopy instead of snap. (Not sure if there is a separate license on the EMC box for this). DSS COPY FULL with DUMPCONDITIONING will copy the source volser and put it on the target volume such that when you do a DSS DUMP FULL that it will use the volser of the original volume as the volser for the dump copy. VOLA -> VOLB(VOLA) -> VOLA
On another note, HSM FRBACKUP does this at scale for every volume in a storage group. The best part is that HSM keeps track of which volumes all of the data sets reside and it's a simple FRRECOVER DSNAME command and HSM will recover all of the pieces (even for data sets that have been deleted or have since moved to a new location for existing data sets) and recatalog them. Glenn Wilcock DFSMS Chief Product Owner ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
