Backup programming techniques

 

The programming techniques include recovering jobs, displaying status messages, and redirecting output from save and restore commands to an output file.

• Considerations for job recovery
  Job recovery and starting again should be a basic part of application design. Applications should be designed to handle.

• Interpreting output from save (SAV) and restore (RST)
  When you use the Save (SAV) command or the Restore (RST) command, you can direct output to a stream file or to a user space.

• Interpreting output from save commands
  This topic contains a list of links to save commands or APIs that you can use to direct output to an output file.

• Retrieving the device name from save completion messages
  The CL program retrieves the device name from the CPC3701 message (found in positions 126 through 135 of the message data) and uses the information to determine which device is used by the next save command.

• Displaying status messages when saving
  This program sends a message to the external (*EXT) program message queue if any objects cannot be saved.

 

Parent topic:

Backing up your system