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Offline VBACKUP

There are circumstances under which a volume must be offline to the system performing the backup. Since the volume serial number is not known to the system the unit address of the volume(s) must be specified in the UNIT= parameter of a SELECT statement. In addition, a SET statement must specify OFFLINE=INCLUDE so that offline units will be considered during the VBACKUP process. The DSNENQ parameter is ignored for an offline VBACKUP, but the RESERVE parameter is honored.