We would like to make the user's responsibility of insuring the security and integrity of his or her datasets a convenient process. With this in mind, User Services has developed three procedures, accessible under TSO, for this purpose.
First of all, you need to provide the UCNS tape librarian with a magnetic tape to be used as the medium on which you will back up and retrieve desired datasets. Take a magnetic tape which you have purchased (or already have) to the librarian, located in the machine room on the first floor of the Boyd Graduate Studies Building. The librarian will ask you to fill out a Tape Library Submission/Removal Form and then insert your tape in the library. You should have the submission/removal form close by when following the procedures described here. C.1 STDLABEL
STDLABEL creates the Job Control Language (JCL) and submits a batch job which will write an IBM standard label on the tape. One word of caution before using STDLABEL; if there is already data on the tape, it will be erased.
At the READY prompt enter: STDLABEL and respond to system inquiries. DO YOU WISH TO CONTINUE WITH THIS LABEL PROCEDURE (Y/N)?
A response of Y continues the procedure as shown following; an N entered here will terminate the procedure. ENTER VOLUME SERIAL NUMBER OF TAPE (VSN - INTERNAL LABEL)
The standard label can be from 1 to 6 characters long. You may enter any combination of letters and/or numbers, but this label should begin with a letter. In the future, you will refer to this particular tape by this particular label. Sometimes the standard label is referred to as the VSN (Volume Serial Number) or internal label. If asked to supply the VSN or internal label in other procedures which involve this tape, use the standard label.
ENTER VISUAL REEL NUMBER OF TAPE (VRN)
The VRN is assigned to the tape by the tape librarian, and it is the actual number of the slot where the tape is stored. Refer to your tape submission/removal form for the VRN. The VRN is usually 5 characters, in the form: #nnnn
ENTER TAPE KEYWORD
The keyword is a 1 to 4 character word of your choice. This word is affixed to the tape when submitted to the tape library and serves as a security check. The keyword to be entered is shown on the submission/removal form.
ENTER JOBNAME
Choose a name to identify your job.
ENTER DESTINATION CODE WHERE YOU WOULD LIKE YOUR OUTPUT TO PRINT (EXAMPLE: SSS03 FOR ADERHOLD, DEFAULT IS LOCAL)
To print the output at the UGA central site, simply enter a carriage return. To have the output printed at one of the UGA campus computer services sites, enter the appropriate identifying number, which is in the form SSSxx.
This completes the STDLABEL procedure. The information that you entered at each of these prompts will be displayed and you will be asked if the information is correct. Provided that the information is correct, enter Y at the final prompt to submit the job. The jobname and the job number (in the form Jxxxx) will then be displayed.
C.2 BACKUP
BACKUP provides an easy way to make backup copies on tape of your "permanent" datasets. The tape must be standard labeled. At the READY prompt, enter: BACKUP and respond to system inquiries.
DO YOU WISH TO CONTINUE WITH THIS BACKUP PROCEDURE (Y/N)?
A response of Y continues the procedure as shown following; an N entered here will terminate the procedure. ENTER VOLUME SERIAL NUMBER OF TAPE (VSN - INTERNAL LABEL)
This is the VSN -- internal label -- that was assigned in the STDLABEL procedure. The standard label can be from 1 to 6 characters long. You may enter any combination of letters and/or numbers, but this label should begin with a letter. In the future, you will refer to this particular tape by this particular label. Sometimes the standard label is referred to as the VSN (for Volume Serial Number) or internal label. If asked to supply the VSN or internal label in other procedures which involve this tape, use the standard label.
ENTER VISUAL REEL NUMBER OF TAPE (VRN)
The VRN is assigned to the tape by the tape librarian, and it is the actual number of the slot where the tape is stored. Refer to your tape submission/removal form for the VRN.
ENTER TAPE KEYWORD
The keyword is a 1 to 4 character word of your choice. This word is affixed to the tape when submitted to the tape library and serves as a security check. The keyword to be entered is shown on the submission/removal form.
Choose a name to identify your job.
WHAT FILE ON TAPE #____ DO YOU WANT TO BACK UP TO? (FILE 1 IS THE BEGINNING OF TAPE) Choose file # 1 on a new tape.
The information that you entered at each of these prompts will be displayed and you will be asked if the information is correct. Provided that the information is correct, enter Y.
DO YOU WISH TO BACK UP ALL OF YOUR PERMANENT DATASETS (Y/N)?
If you enter Y, all of your permanent datasets will be copied to tape file 1, and the job will be submitted for processing. (All members of a partitioned dataset will be backed up.) If you enter N, you will be asked to enter the datasets you want included in tape file 1. Of course, there are many options here as to which datasets and how many datasets you include in each tape file. You may, for example, wish to have each tape file correspond to each permanent dataset. This may not be practical if you have a lot of datasets, since BACKUP would have to be run for each dataset. Whatever you elect to do, it is probably a good idea to keep a record of the datasets contained in each tape file. After you have selected your datasets for tape file 1, enter a carriage return to submit the job for processing. The jobname and the job number will then be displayed.
Important: The backup file created with the BACKUP procedure is a specially formatted file. It is usually NOT transportable to another institution. Contact Client Services if you need to move files to another institution.
C.3 RETRIEVE
The RETRIEVE procedure is designed to retrieve a dataset from your BACKUP tape created by the BACKUP procedure. Be sure to have your output from BACKUP so that you will be able to provide the necessary information.
At the READY prompt, enter: RETRIEVE and respond to system inquiries. DO YOU WISH TO CONTINUE WITH THIS RETRIEVE PROCEDURE (Y/N)?
A response of Y continues the procedure as shown following; an N entered here will terminate the procedure. DSNAME
The name of the tape-resident dataset should be supplied here in its fully qualified form, but WITHOUT the single quotes: myid.my.data
If the dataset you wish to retrieve exists on any disk volume, you cannot use the original name of the dataset (the name used on the BACKUP tape). You will be prompted for a new name.
ENTER JOBNAME
Choose a name to identify your job.
ENTER VOLUME SERIAL NUMBER OF TAPE (VSN - INTERNAL LABEL)
This is the VSN -- internal label -- that was assigned in the STDLABEL procedure. The standard label can be from 1 to 6 characters long. You may enter any combination of letters and/or numbers, but this label should begin with a letter. In the future, you will refer to this particular tape by this particular label. Sometimes the standard label is referred to as the VSN (for Volume Serial Number) or internal label. If asked to supply the VSN or internal label in other procedures which involve this tape, use the standard label.
ENTER VISUAL REEL NUMBER OF TAPE (VRN)
The VRN is assigned to the tape by the tape librarian, and it is the actual number of the slot where the tape is stored. Refer to your tape submission/removal form for the VRN.
ENTER TAPE KEYWORD
The keyword is a 1 to 4 character word of your choice. This word is affixed to the tape when submitted to the tape library and serves as a security check. The keyword to be entered is shown on the submission/removal form.
WHAT FILE ON TAPE #____ DO YOU WANT TO RETRIEVE FROM? (FILE 1 IS THE BEGINNING OF TAPE)
This completes the RETRIEVE procedure. The information that you entered at each of these prompts will be displayed and you will be asked if the information is correct. Provided that the information is correct, enter Y at the final prompt to submit the job. The jobname and job number will then be displayed.
C.4 FOR MORE INFORMATION
For further interpretation on the use of the STDLABEL/BACKUP/RETRIEVE procedures, please contact the UCNS Help Desk, Computer Services Annex, at (706) 542-3106.