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ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 3 - IBM Redbooks

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When to use physical processing<br />

Use physical processing when:<br />

► Backing up system volumes that you might want to restore with a stand-alone DFSMSdss<br />

restore operation.<br />

Stand-alone DFSMSdss restore supports only physical dump tapes.<br />

► Performance is an issue.<br />

Generally, the fastest way (measured by elapsed time) to copy or dump an entire volume is<br />

by using a physical full-volume command. This is primarily because minimal catalog<br />

searching is necessary for physical processing.<br />

► Substituting one physical volume for another or recovering an entire volume.<br />

With a COPY or RESTORE (full volume or track) command, the volume serial number <strong>of</strong> the<br />

input DASD volume can be copied to the output DASD volume.<br />

► Dealing with I/O errors.<br />

Physical processing provides the capability to copy, dump, and restore a specific track or<br />

range <strong>of</strong> tracks.<br />

► Dumping or copying between volumes <strong>of</strong> the same device type but different capacity.<br />

202 <strong>ABCs</strong> <strong>of</strong> z/<strong>OS</strong> <strong>System</strong> <strong>Programming</strong> <strong>Volume</strong> 3

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