[Tfug] bacula et ilk

[Jeffry Johnston]

JCL isn't dead, it just makes you wish you were.. I work with it on a
daily basis.  One of the joys of being a mainframe programmer at IBM
:)

Jeff


On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:45 AM, eric christian <ericdanc at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:05:52 -0700
>> From: "John Karns" <johnkarns at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Tfug] bacula et ilk
>> To: bexley401 at yahoo.com, "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
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>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Bexley Hall <bexley401 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > My W2K machine recently suffered a series of hardware
>>> > crashes.  After each, I dutifully restored my  most
>>> > recent backup and would limp along until the next
>>> > crash.
>>> >
>>> > [I've since traced the problem to a bad memory device
>>> > *and* a marginal disk drive.  :<  ]
>>> >
>>> > Anyway, in those few times when the machine was "up"
>>> > enough for me to do some useful work, I noticed that
>>> > my "restore" seemed incomplete (or, perhaps the
>>> > original *backup* was to blame?).
>>> >
>>> > E.g., I would have to "re-register" (authorize) programs
>>> > that *had* been registered previously.  Certain programs
>>> > would complain that there were "necessary files missing",
>>> > etc.
>>>
>>
>> This has been an issue with 'blowz for as long as I can remember.
>> I've always used Linux to backup and restore, via an image copy using
>> "dd"
> Good ol'dd. We used to backup customer data from many a big
> insurance/bank etc way back in the 80's. dd's been around awhile,
> remember ol'JCL?
>
> //IS198CPY JOB (IS198T30500),'COPY JOB',CLASS=L,MSGCLASS=X
> //COPY01   EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
> //SYSPRINT DD  SYSOUT=*
> //SYSUT1   DD  DSN=OLDFILE,DISP=SHR
> //SYSUT2   DD  DSN=NEWFILE,
> //           DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),
> //           SPACE=(CYL,(40,5),RLSE),
> //           DCB=(LRECL=115,BLKSIZE=1150)
> //SYSIN    DD  DUMMY
>
> Eric
>
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