INNOVATION Data Processing Business Resiliency Solutions...Update

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1 INNOVATION Data Processing Business Resiliency Solutions...Update Thomas J Meehan INNOVATION Data Processing SHARE Austin TX March 3, 2009 Session #3068 Trademarks and statements: IBM, System Z, System z9, System z10 and z/os are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. DMX, SYMMETRIX and TimeFinder* are registered trademarks of EMC Corporation. FDR, FDRABR, FDRPAS, FDRMOVE, FDRERASE, FDRINSTANT and FDRCRYPT are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of Innovation Data Processing Corporation. All other service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 1

2 ...Update on Support for z/os 1.10 and Storage Virtualization Technology 2009 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 2

3 What, Why, Who, When, Where Executive Summary INNOVATION Data Processing is your single source for business resiliency solutions providing non-disruptive business continuance, high performance data protection, storage resource optimization and privacy information protection for z/os and Linux on System z, Linux on Open Systems, enterprise scale Novell NetWare, as well as for SAN, client/server, UNIX and Windows storage INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 3

4 What, Why, Who, When, Where Executive Summary INNOVATION works closely with EMC, Hitachi, IBM, SUN/STK and other storage technology vendors to insure data protection, business continuance and business resiliency solutions that are simple, secure and fast. A premier ISV technology partner, INNOVATION has been working in concert with EMC, Hitachi, IBM, SUN/STK and other mainframe disk storage vendors engineering groups for over two decades to co-operatively develop software that will help customers enjoy the benefits of advanced technology mainframe disk storage hardware and software solutions, independent of operating system release or processor hardware INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 4

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6 All FDR Products Now Support Extended Address Volumes (EAV) z/os 1.10 IBM introduces volumes that are larger than 54GB's. These volumes called extended address volume (EAV) are 100 s of GB in size. The z/os 1.10 size is limited to 223 GB. Use of EAV volumes is transparently supported by all FDR products V5.4/70 and above available 1Q Overview EAV Key Design Points Maintains 3390 track format cylinder-managed space Cylinders> 65,520 track-managed space Cylinders <= 65,520 Track-managed space: the area on an EAV located within the first 65,520 cylinders intended as storage for small data sets Comparable to the same space on non-eavs Space is allocated in track or cylinder increments Cylinder-managed space: the area on an EAV located above the first 65,520 cylinders intended as storage for large data sets Space is allocated in multicylinder units (MCU). A fixed unit of disk space that is larger than a cylinder. System may round space requests up to a multiple of an MCU (i.e. 315 tracks) Currently, on an EAV, the MCU is 21 cylinders BreakPointValue (BPV) directs placement of EAS-eligible data sets on EAV a value in cylinders Cylinder-managed space is preferred if requested space >= BPV Track-managed space is preferred if requested space < BPV Specified in SMS parmlib and storage group definitions with a value of cyl Storage group BPV overrides system-level BPV - Defaults to 10 cylinders if not specified in either New Format DSCBs Format 8 DSCB equivalent to a format 1 DSCB. Contains a chain pointer to a format 9 DSCB Format 9 DSCB Provides attribute data and a list of pointers to each possible format 3 DSCB. Additional IBM maintenance to look for EAV, (PK77307) - ICKDSF BUILDIX IXVTOC(PK77307) 2009 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 6

7 ALL FDR PRODUCTS SUPPORT HyperPAV and HyperSWAP FDRPAS ensures a volume s HyperPAV access and HyperSwap protected status throughout the duration of the data copy phase of a volume migration, transparently deactivating it only momentarily for the actual SWAP. HyperPAV, (APAR OA OA27065) Install the feature and turn it on: z/os and the DS8000 handle the rest. Evolution of multiple parallel access to 3390 volumes Static PAVs. You must know hot devices in advance and decide where to assign PAVs Dynamic PAV. WLM decides where to assign PAVs for the next WLM interval 10 min and that PAV configuration is fixed in concrete (static) until the end of that WLM-I. HyperPAV. IOS decides on an I/O by I/O basis if a PAV is needed for the next I/O, finds one in a pool of available PAV UCBs and directs the new I/O to a PAV UCB HyperSWAP/HyperSWAP Basic (APAR OA27065, OA26509) Customers depend on HyperSwap to automate and enhance the value of remote data protection INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 7

8 ALL FDR PRODUCTS now SUPPORT 520 MB/sec zhpf zhpf is a System z architecture and FICON channel architecture performance enhancement implemented exclusively in System z10 to streamline the execution of small block IO. Supporting only disk access FCX channel programs will not be interpreted by the channel but will be transferred directly to the storage controller. An option available on all current IBM zseries disk systems, FICON Express4 and FICON Express2 channels support both the existing FICON architecture and the zhpf architecture. FCX will only be used by Media Manager initially. A device must be designated FXC capable to use this channel access protocol, but can be accessed concurrently by both standard format CCWs and by FCX. Support will be in z/os 1.10 and extended by PTF back to z/os 1.7. Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and VM are now certified with the latest generation IBM System z10 Enterprise Class server and with IBM s zhpf enhancements to the System z INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 8

9 Update on FDR Support for New Storage Virtualization Technology IBM recent replication enhancements Space Efficient FC (FC/SE) [ under provisioned virtual volumes backed by a pool of real volumes only record tracks that change on the primary volume] Incremental FC [hardware function to only copy changed tracks requires the volume to be left in a persistent relationship] Dynamic Volume Expansion [a hardware console function to enlarge a volume while it remains online] Fast Recovery Restore FlashCopy recovery performance improvement [Flash back changes for quick recovery] Hyper-Swap Employing FDRINSTANT to copy datasets to a Hyper-Swap protected target will result in the use of FlashCopy hardware replication. EMC recent replication enhancements Compatible Native FlashCopy (CN/FC) TF Clone and Dataset Snap performance improvements Auto-Swap Employing FDRINSTANT to copy datasets to an Auto-Swap protected target in an EMC system will result in the use of FlashCopy or TF SNAP hardware replication. HDS recent replication enhancements FCV2 to PPRC primary FDRINSTANT to a USPv TrueCopy Sync protected target that has "Native FCTOPPRC Primary" facility that will provide the same support as IBM FlashCopy INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 9

10 FDRInstant supports the use of all three types of hardware replication that can virtualize backup. Your storage subsystems may be licensed for any or all of these technologies, which have different names and sometimes significant differences in implementation depending on your hardware vendor of choice. Mirroring Replication EMC TF/Mirror, HDS ShadowImage, IBM Persistent FC (FV) Splits a persistent mirror to create a PIT in copy for backup Consistent option (Keeps two point-in-time relationships between the volumes) On Demand EMC TF/Clone, EMC/HDS/IBM FlashCopy (FV / DS) FCOPY TYPE=FDR establishes a FC session to any standard volume default NOCOPY FCOPY=INCR persistent session copies updates in real time and allows FRR DUMP TYPE=FDR FCOPY=(USE) determines FC session state Incremental retains the persistent incremental session and allows FRR Terminate stop the FC session. SNAP TYPE=FDR establishes a CLONE/SNAP session to any standard volume DUMP TYPE=FDR SNAP=(USE, ) determines SNAP session state Pre-copy persistent session copies updates in real time Differential persistent session marks updates to only copy at next SNAP Terminate stops the Snap session. On Demand Dataset Copy Dynamically selects TF/Clone Data Set EMC Snap Operations (DS) or FlashCopy (DS) Copy multiple data sets in parallel (MAXTASKS=n) 2009 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 10

11 Licensing the INNOVATION FDRInstantBACKUP product, FDRInstant for short, enables FDR and FDRABR with Instant functionality; a simple common interface to the appropriate hardware data replication function no matter what mix of hardware vendor s storage systems you may have in your site. ABRInstant, for example, automating the use of hardware data replication is the most advanced non-disruptive business data protection and business continuance solution available today for any z/os mainframe storage system. FDR and FDRABR backup and restore processing, as well as FDRCOPY data set copy and move at FDR V5.4 L60 and above now contain allocation, catalog and disk VTOC processing performance improvements. The introduction of more efficient CCW chains to access VTOC data, reduces I/O processing time. Multiple reads of the input volume s VTOC for backup and output volume for restores are gone. Employing an IBM service to identify the end of active data in a VTOC, FDR now reads only as much of the VTOC as necessary. This significantly reduces VTOC read time especially for customers allocating larger VTOC sizes to accommodate today's larger devices. Although these improvements apply to all FDR and FDRABR backups and restores, the improvement is most noticeable in FDRInstant data set FDRCOPY. When instant replication techniques, such as SNAP and FlashCopy, are used to copy the data, allocation, catalog and disk VTOC processing is a significant portion of the total elapsed time and that is exactly where these changes provide significant benefit INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 11

12 An Instant Technology Backup is two simple steps JOB STEP 1: begins with an Instant command ( SPLIT/SNAP/FCOPY ) to create the point-in-time (PIT) backup of the online source volume on an offline volume and then resets the VTOC update flags on the online source volume. Securing a source volume and datasets from updates during the few moments it takes for the point-in-time technology to complete, prevents a fuzzy backup (insures logical consistency). Recording the location of the offline PIT copy, marks the Instant Technology Backup as complete. DSNENQ=USE overrides the default which is not to issue point-in-time copy commands if a dataset is in use and ENQERR=NO overrides the normal error message. An Instant Technology Backup is complete when the point-in-time copy step ends. Normal business processing can resume and rapid restores are available from the PIT backup volume. JOB STEP 2: performs a non-disruptive tape backup. SPLIT/SNAP/ FCOPY=USE tells ABRInstant to query the storage system and determine if an InstantBackup exists for any of the volumes. There is no need to identify anything extra. COPY1=COPY2, instructs ABR to create one tape backup and retain the PIT InstantBackup for Rapid Restore. An InstantBackup (PIT volume) by default is protected against being accidentally mounted, i.e. brought online by altering the PIT disk label. A utility to bring the copy online is available but is not necessary for the PIT copy to be used in a Rapid Restore INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 12

13 Virtualize storage to simplify and increase efficiency IBM FlashCopy Space Efficient capability (FC/SE) and EMC TimeFinder SNAP (TF/SNAP) can lower costs by significantly reducing the disk capacity needed for copies. No need to allocate target copy capacity to match full source Uses space to only save updated source data Thinly provisioned target copies reduce capacity needs The use of SPACE EFFICIENT volumes as a FlashCopy or TF/SNAP target is transparently supported by FDRINSTANT V5.4/62 and above. FDRINSTANT will automatically detect a SPACE EFFICIENT FLASHUNIT designation and appropriately establish the FlashCopy relationship. EMC TimeFinder/SNAP is a similar space efficient/virtual technology solution. Additional IBM maintenance to look for: Extent level FC (OA26682) HyperPAV interaction (OA26237) Increase workload IBM code fix in (R4.1) andr3 remap 2009 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 13

14 Fully Provisioned (Traditional) Suggested Use When a full physical copy of data on disk is needed (for example to protect against hardware failures or to use as a production or long-term test copy) Longer-term copies FlashCopy /SNAP relationships that last more than 24 hours Copies for source data that will be updated significantly >20% updates Whenever performance is more important than economy Thinly Provisioned (Virtualized Storage) Suggested Use When a backup on tape or a full remote copy is the primary means of data protection Short-term copies FlashCopy/SNAP relationships that last less than 24 hours for qualification and consistency testing or copies for Data Mining Copies of data with a small amount of update activity <20% during time they are active When economy will not put the business at risk 2009 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 14

15 It s obvious customers that buy new disk systems want to migrate their data to new systems but Why do customers want to consolidate? Customers want to Simplify Management : Fewer z/os volumes fewer multi-volume datasets Simpler hardware config reduce "HDAs" from a hundred volumes to < 10, Reduce Raid Groups from thousand of volumes Overcome Architectural Constrains IBM is promoting larger volumes 9, 27, 54, EAV Use larger volumes before hitting architectural constrains Software limitation on the number of UCB s in z/os (64K). Replication can cut that in half The capacity of physical HDDs is increasing, (e.g. 350GB, 750GB, 1TB) to the point where the number of physical HDD volumes in a storage system will contain more disk capacity than the operating system can address, unless z/os volumes increase in size INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 15

16 Your companies are under pressure Facing an overwhelming explosive data growth customers must upgrade to faster, higher capacity more reliable and ultimately less expensive disk storage while maintaining 24 x 7 data availability. Management wants a solution that will allow them to reap the benefits of consolidating storage, servers and bringing up new applications with peace of mind; knowing these systems will have access to faster, higher capacity more reliable and ultimately less expensive disk storage while maintaining 24 x 7 data availability. You have a solution to begin using newer, faster, lower cost and more reliable z/os disk storage systems sooner without any interruption to ongoing business while consolidating to a lesser number of volumes with minimal business disruption...any time. You can offer these benefits sooner and without disruption because with FDRPAS and FDRMOVE you can non-disruptively install the new storage and consolidate volumes with little to no impact on their applications, at anytime INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 16

17 What is FDRMOVE with FDRPAS? FDRMOVE is data set oriented volume consolidation providing file level migration to complement FDRPAS non-disruptive volume level migration solution. FDRMOVE dramatically reduces or eliminates downtime during storage consolidation for load balancing, upgrades, storage platform changes, and simplification initiatives with real time data set relocation. The design aim of FDRMOVE with FDRPAS is to provide a single, extremely fast, easy to use, automation solution for non-disruptive volume migration and minimally-disruptive real time data set relocation for volume consolidation that will address all manner of customer data. The function of FDRMOVE quite simply is to migrate datasets independent of volume size to support customer storage consolidation and simplification initiatives; i.e. moving data from small volumes to larger ones, for volume count reduction and UCB constraint relief, as well for load balancing. The customers benefit Anytime Empowerment Consolidate volumes, at anytime, with little to no impact on applications. Increase capacity, decrease cost, increase performance, decrease footprints and consolidate volumes sooner and without disruption, because FDRMOVE with FDRPAS lets you can do it with little to no impact on business applications. Fast, Safe, Simple and Secure, users are unaware that FDRMOVE is consolidating volumes or FDRPAS is swapping volumes to the new storage. Banking customer reports Used FDRMOVE to consolidate 1500 data sets resident on twenty-two (22) volumes to eight (8) volumes in just minutes Here again mileage will vary and we ll discuss performance as we describe FDRMOVE in more detail INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 17

18 What is FDRPAS? FDRPAS (FDR Plug and Swap) is a Business Resiliency solution supporting continuous 24 x 7 x 365 accessibility, by non-disruptively moving volumes to and from z/os disks to consolidate storage capacity on new hardware of the same volume size or larger on the fly, while business operations continue nonstop. FDRPAS capabilities include the ability to employ channel extenders to move data centers, combine data centers and split data centers. Customer benefits New storage is available for use sooner Fast, Safe and Secure FDRPAS maintains data integrity SWAP in new, faster disk storage, during normal business hours with no disruption to business operations. FDRPAS increases end-user productivity unaffected users see only the benefits of technology upgrades Recently a customer non-disruptively moved 1.8 Terabytes (600 volumes) to a new storage system in one hour, swapping up to 20 volumes concurrently, with no impact on normal operations. Another customer who chose a light weekend to install new equipment writes Completed copying 30TB of old storage in under 2 hours 40 minutes. With FDRPAS running on just 2 LPARs (Note: Allocated space was only 19 TBs for about 7TB/hr.) And another We migrated 1,000 volumes (43/mod 1's, 32/mod 3 s and 784/ mod 9's ) for about 7.3TB in 7 1/2 hrs. (about 1TB/hr.) Mileage may vary but usually expect a rate of about 1.6 TB/hour INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 18

19 FDRMOVE Key Strengths Speed Identify data sets that are inactive and move them in an instant..., When hardware replication technology is available, move 250 data sets, occupying up to 1Terabyte of data across 16 volumes, in about 1 minute. Allocating, cataloging and moving over 1000 small data sets per minute, with two concurrent jobs across 16 volumes. Concurrently moving multiple s in minutes with high performance EXCP IO when hardware replication is not available. Reliability FDRMOVE automates the intelligent use of, builds on and extends the same reliable proven technology found in FDRCOPY, FDRPAS and FDRINSTANT to address all manner of data sets. All files naturally go inactive at some point in time. Just not all at a convenient time. FDRMOVE allows applications to continue unaffected as it non-disruptively swaps active dataset source volumes to the target storage system, so operations can bounce e.g. stop and restart, applications to momentarily take them down and free datasets that do not naturally go inactive on a convenient schedule INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 19

20 How does FDRMOVE Work? Monitoring the use of data sets to identify those that are inactive Automatically migrates data sets the instant they become inactive: Single and multi-volume VSAM, DB2, IMS, ADABAS and non-vsam datasets on SMS and non-sms volumes to designated new volumes Pre-positioning source volumes in the same storage system as the new target...to take advantage of INSTANT I/O Allocating data sets to new volumes Copying data with INSTANT or conventional I/O Recataloging data sets to the new volumes Continues scanning for more data sets to become naturally inactive 2009 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 20

21 FDRMOVE has three simple commands (Functions) SIMMOVE identify special consideration files and validate set up MOVE high speed IO moves inactive files without impacting applications FASTMOVE intelligently combines the proven technologies of system SWAP (non-disruptive volume migration) and hardware data replication (instant data set copy) FDRMOVE views disk volumes as either: Source old volumes containing datasets to be moved Target new disk volumes where datasets are to reside Transit empty volumes in same storage system as Target volumes, FASTMOVE uses for staging 2009 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 21

22 SIMMOVE is an FDRMOVE command/function that using Simulation : Aids planning Validates control statements Identifies special case datasets (i.e. catalog, active RACF ) Displays all the volumes to be processed Identifies all selected data sets Shows currently active data sets and the jobs using them 2009 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 22

23 FDRMOVE with FDRPAS Summary z/os RealTime mainframe data migration providing file level granularity to complement FDRPAS non-disruptive volume level migration. FDRMOVE automates the intelligent use of, and builds on, our proven reliable volume swap, dataset copy and instant hardware data replication technology to move datasets. Datasets can be selected by SMS Storage Group, volume or through the catalog...to go to a specific Storage Group, volume or groups of volumes... FDRMOVE with FDRPAS identifies and moves data sets that are inactive. automates employing FDRPAS to insure a source volume(s) is in the same storage system as the new target...(transit station). intelligently determines when data sets become inactive (not open/ not allocated) to use FDRInstant hardware replication to move the data and recatalogs the dataset in an instant INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 23

24 Using FDRPAS Start Consolidation with a SWAP Use FDRPAS to move system and special data sets to a target nondisruptively swapping the volumes to Target volumes of equal or larger size that the source volume. Optionally, use FDRPAS to move smaller capacity source volumes to the larger capacity target disks and then use FDRMOVE to add data sets from other volumes to fill up the free space on the larger disk. Ensure the VTOC on the source volumes moved with FDRPAS is large enough to accommodate the higher number of additional data sets that will eventually reside on the larger volume INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 24

25 FDRMOVE Includes FDRPAS Use FDRPAS to non-disruptively move the system volumes and those volumes with special datasets e.g. Catalogs, active RACF control data set, Spool Volumes, etc, or optionally to move the first smaller capacity source volume to the larger capacity target When FDRPAS completes the SWAP the Source Volume is online in the new storage system and there is no disruption to the active applications. A copy of the Source remains offline in the old storage system, specially marked to prevent it from accidentally coming online. Then use FDRMOVE to add data sets from other source volumes to fill up the free space on the larger disk INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 25

26 Is the VTOC too small? Ensure the VTOC on the source volumes moved with FDRPAS is large enough to accommodate the higher number of additional data sets that will eventually reside on the larger volume. Use FDRPAS to expand the VTOC of a target as necessary. The BUILDIX function of ICKDSF is disruptive requiring shared DASD be put offline to all systems but one. FDRPAS includes EXPANDVTOC and SWAPBUILDIX useful utilities, that employing the co-ordination techniques of FDRPAS, allows you to non-disruptively expand the size of the VTOC and rebuild a damaged or missing VTOC Index while the volume remains in use on all systems use a VTOC of 150 trks (accommodates about 7,000 data sets) use a VTOC of 450 trks (accommodates about 20,000 data sets) use a VTOC of 900 trks (accommodates about 40,000 data sets) See the FDRMOVE Manual for notes on VTOC sizes and expanding VTOCs INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 26

27 What does MOVE do? Scans data sets identifying those that are inactive Automatically migrates all inactive data sets to the new volume: Single and multi-volume DB2, VSAM and non-vsam datasets from SMS and non-sms volumes Allocates data sets to new volumes Copies data with high performance EXCP I/O Recataloging the data sets to the new volumes Continues scanning for more data sets to become inactive MOVE using high performance EXCP IO can move up to 2.5 GB across 600 datasets in about 4 minutes Note: Move employs hardware replication to copy data when source and target volumes reside within the same storage system, at up to 1TB per minute or upward of 250 data sets, using 16 simultaneous tasks INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 27

28 Using FASTMOVE FASTMOVE non-disruptively pre-stages active files volumes into the new storage system (e.g. larger files and those belonging to time sensitive applications) Same familiar selection criteria and control statement format Automatically selects volumes containing active source data sets FDRPAS swaps source volume to transit station Auto-generates FDRPAS Jobs for active volumes 2009 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 28

29 Using FASTMOVE Moves files by volume or storage group with INSTANT I/O using hardware data replication (e.g. FlashCopy, SNAP, SnapShot Copy), to quickly relocate datasets anytime they are temporarily inactive. Monitoring data sets usage Automatically migrates inactive data sets Copying w/instant I/O Recataloging datasets to new volumes Scanning for more inactive data sets every 2 seconds Moving Up to 1TB per minute, or upwards of 250 datasets, using 16 simultaneous tasks 2009 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 29

30 Objective Move 25,602 DB2 files to new volumes. Task Allocate ~25,602 DB2 data sets Copy ~1.4 million tracks Catalog ~25,000 DB2 data sets Delete ~25,000 B2 data sets Challenge Move the DB2 files with minimal impact on production systems. Solution FDRMOVE with FDRInstant technology completes the move of 25,602 DB2 files in 8 minutes, moving data sets at the rate of 3,200/ minute (8.5 GB/min). FDRMOVE with hardware data replication Consolidate at 1 Terabyte/minute across 250 datasets One thousand datasets/minute across 16 volumes Source volumes gain benefit of transit station while waiting for applications to release files INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 30

31 FDRERASE for z/os and FDRERASE/OPEN both are US Government EAL2+ certified data protection solutions for the secure erase of data from disk that is being disposed of, repurposed or upon leaving a DR site. FDRERASE for z/os is a mainframe OS product. It erases CKD (z/os format) disks. FDRERASE is, the only US Government CCEVS EAL2++ validated disk erase utility for IBM z/os environment Sensitive Data Protection. FDRERASE/OPEN erases Fibre and SCSI attach (open system) disks. It runs on any Intel x86 system or compatible, using the Sun Solaris operating system, which is provided as a component of the product for your use. FDRERASE/OPEN is, the only US Government CCEVS EAL2+ validated disk erase utility for Open Systems Sensitive Data Protection INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 31

32 Convert, consolidate, stack and migrate tape resident data files when upgrading, consolidating or repurposing tape systems. Easiest and most reliable utility available to load, unload, reload, recatalog and update CA-1 and IBM DF/RMM tape management systems for tape migrations from conventional as well as hardware and software based virtual tape library systems. Protect data on tape leaving your control for disposal, FATS/ERASE for z/os a secure erase tape utility is the easiest and most reliable utility available for secure erasure of tape media. Used by Professional Services for VTL migrations (e.g. NY Life, Huntington Bank, US Bank, Kroger). You can use FATSCOPY to easily convert your current tape library or VTS to new high capacity tape, a new VTS or to a new manufacturer s VTS INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 32

33 Copy a Tape: Make an exact image copy or logical copy of an input tape, allowing you to rename, reblock, and selectively copy files from the input tape. Tape Media Conversions: i.e. 3480s/3490s to 3590s to IBM TS1130 /TS1120, Sun T10000B, EMC DLm or Bus-Tech MDL. Map a Tape: Verify the characteristics of a tape, what files are on tape, how many, names, DCB characteristics, blocksizes, creation and expiration dates, compression statistics and more Erase Tapes: Erase all data on a tape prior to discarding or repurposing. Recover damaged and overwritten tape: Extensive error recovery allows you to read (and copy) tapes that have had tape errors, avoiding significant rerun time. Certify Tapes: Insure that new and existing tapes do not have errors that would cause costly reruns. Verification: Legacy/Historical/Archive Tape. Integrated Tape Management Support: FATSCOPY supports CA-1 and IBM s RMM tape management systems for tape copying/stacking and migration INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 33

34 You can specify the data sets by: data set name prefixes or masks tape volume serial prefixes or ranges catalog tape device type (3480, 3490E or 3590) Then additionally filter the data sets to be copied based on: creation date expiration date creating job name data set size last used program creating program FATSCOPY can also be directed to copy entire tape volumes by volser regardless of whether they are cataloged or not INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 34

35 ALLDSN in conjunction with: EXPDTGROUP (NO) is a one for one media migration i.e. one VTS to another VTS (same capacity volumes) EXPDTGROUP (YES) is to consolidate or stack volumes i.e.copy multiple lesser capacity volumes to higher capacity volumes, i.e to TS1130 MULTIVOL selecting a volume containing a multivolume file will result in all of the other volumes containing that dataset to also be selected. OPCAP will provide the number of output tapes of the specified capacity required to hold the copied or migrated volumes and is used in conjunction with Simulation INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 35

36 Select the specified volumes and FATSCOPY selects any others that make up a multi-volume set INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 36

37 Selection by Catalog EXPTDTGROUP = creates groups of qualifying individual datasets expiring with in x days of one another. MULTIFILE = (NO) prevents the copying of a datasets if the input volume contains more than a single file. OFFSITE = (NO) will not call for any tape volume identified by a tape management system as being off site. VIRTUNIT = FATSCOPY will only copy files from volumes identified by a tape management system as a standard tape device. This parameter allows the specification of an esoteric name of a device used to create the volume a specified datasets resides on when it is not a standard tape INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 37

38 RENAME = allows a change to all index qualifiers except the last. ADDX = extend the scratch date used in conjunction with TMSINPUT. UNITIN = in conjunction with ALLDSN specifies a specific unit on which to mount input volumes. The default is the last tape device used as recorded by the tape management system. CAT = catalog the output after verifying input dataset name, VOLSER and file seq number. RECAT = catalog out put datasets without verification. LASTAPE = a dataset name cataloged to identify the last volume written. LASTFILE = min num of MB (1000=1 GB) to be copied before a multivolume dataset is allowed. If a copy writes less prior to EOV the dataset is recopied in its entirety to a new output volume. LASTMULT= works in conjunction w/lastape to allow multivolume files. MAXBLK works in conjunction w/reblock. THRESHOLD = set max capacity of volume in conjunction w/lastape INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 38

39 EXCLUDE by program name is used to prevent recopying volumes created by FATSCOPY, FDR, HSM and other specific formats INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 39

40 Audit Report FATSCOPY will create an Audit Report containing information for each data set copied. Checkpoint Restart Allows FATSCOPY jobs to be stopped with a console command and restarted at a later time INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 40

41 Simulate Produces detailed reports showing data sets selected for copying and those bypassed. For all the data sets that met the selection criteria, FATSCOPY produces a report showing how the data sets will be grouped on the output volumes, the expiration that will be assigned to the outputs, the number of compressed and uncompressed output tapes needed, and a list showing the input tapes required. OPCAP = will provide the number of output tapes of the specified capacity required to hold the copied or migrated volumes INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 41

42 There are no do overs Erase means erase The data is gone INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 42

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44 What, Why, Who, When, Where Executive Summary INNOVATION Data Processing is your single source for business resiliency solutions providing non-disruptive business continuance, high performance data protection, storage resource optimization and privacy information protection for z/os and Linux on System z, Linux on Open Systems, enterprise scale Novell NetWare, as well as for SAN, client/server, UNIX and Windows storage INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved