Re: FCOPY question

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Subject: Re: FCOPY question
August.Carideo@avon.com
Date: Fri Aug 21 2009 - 12:16:10 EDT 

do you run w/ no verify ?



                                                                           
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This is on a z/VSE 3.1.0 system:

When I do an online copy, such as:
COPY ALL  (which is a physical copy of one volume to another)

I get an error concerning the targets volumes VTOC.  This is none.  It is a
fresh volume from the IBM 8100.
To get around this, I have to INIT the target volume and put a VTOC on it.
Then, the COPY ALL works fine.  And it does copy the source volume VOLID
and the source volumes VTOC.  That is all and good.

But is there a reason why, for a physical copy, I need the target volume to
have a VTOC on it?
It is not this way when doing a standalone restore.

All I'm looking for is whether this is an error in FCOPY, or that I don't
understand how things are working.  The thought if initializing hundreds of
volumes without reason, is just gonna delay some things.

I do find it interesting that when doing a physical copy of one disk to
another, FCOPY will try to use flashcopy for that process.

Thanks

Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting

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