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Recovering the BSDS

If the Global VCAT is still available, use IDCAMS Repro to copy the Global VCAT into a newly defined BSDS1.

If both the BSDS1 and the Global VCAT are lost but the network storage is intact, restore the BSDS1 from the latest backup and recover the Global VCAT as explained in the topic Recovering the Global VCAT.

All CA Vtape Subsystems participating in the CA Vtape Complex sharing the BSDS1 to be restored must be shut down in order to perform the restore.

The following is a sample of a CA Disk restore job:

//JOBNAME  JOB …
//RESTORE  EXEC RESTORE
//SYSIN    DD *
  RESTORE  DSN=HLQ.BSDS1
//

The following is a sample of a DFSMSdss restore job:

//JOBNAME       JOB …
//RESTORE       EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,REGION=4M
//SYSPRINT      DD SYSOUT=*
//INPUT         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=HLQ.BSDS.BACKUP(+0)
//OUTPUT        DD DISP=SHR,UNIT=3390,VOL=SER=XXXXXX
//SYSIN         DD *
  RESTORE DATASET(INCLUDE(HLQ.BSDS1)) -
    PHYSINDDNAME(INPUT) -
    OUTDDNAME(OUTPUT) -
    REPLACE
//