Backup Mission Selection Rules

If you do not specify parameter DO BACKUP for a report in the report decollating mission definition, it will not be archived by Control-D. Any CDAM datasets that are to be backed up are only backed up once. Control-D backs up at the CDAM dataset level.

Example

A report will only be backed up once by Control-D. However, it is possible to specify multiple backup mission names in the report decollating mission definition. This provides us with a special handling ability. Whichever of the defined backup missions runs first will archive the report. In the following example, two backup mission names are specified.

Sample Report Decollating Mission Definition

   ON CLASS      = T         EXTWTR               DEST          FORM           

   PRT COPIES    LVL    USER                      DEST          MAX COPIES     

       PRINT/CDAM PARMS =                                                      

   WHEN LINE   006 - 006   COL   016 - 019   PRINT   REF NXT   CT     AND/OR   

        STRING = 1001                                                         

     DO USER     = BR11                  LVL    LINE     COL     -     S A T   

                                         SYNONYM =       CONCAT =              

     DO NAME     = INVENTORY-FOR-1001           LINE     COL                  

     DO BACKUP   = BKP0007D BKP0031D                                          

     DO                                                                        

On a daily basis, the site normally schedules mission BKP007D to process the daily reports and archive them for a week. However, at month-end, they schedule mission BKP0031D to run before the normal BKP007D. This way, the reports produced by this job at month-end are archived for thirty-one days.