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Multiple Archive Requests and Deferred Archive Requests

Requests to archive one or more non-VSAM data sets or VSAM clusters immediately or to have them placed into a queue to be processed at a later time (deferred requests) are submitted with the following JCL. The addition of a STEPCAT DD statement can be needed for processing incorrectly cataloged VSAM clusters.

//jobname JOB (acct,info),etc.
//STEP EXEC ARCHIVE
MODESET, DARCHIVE,
AND/OR
ARCHIVE COMMANDS ENTERED HERE
MODESET SIMULATE
DARCHIVE
SIMULATE,DSNAME=,VOLUME=,NEWNAME=,RETPD=,EXPDT=,RECATALOG,
UNCATALOG,NOCATALOG,SCRATCH,NOSCRATCH,RESET,NORESET,PASSWORD=
(PASSWORD= not applicable to VSAM)
ARCHIVE

same parameters as above with the addition of MEMBER= (not applicable to VSAM),DEFER