Define Backup Missions

The number of backup missions you define will depend on the various categories of durations for which you need to keep archived reports.

A number of supplied backup mission definitions exist which may meet most of your requirements. We recommend that when you are creating new backup mission definitions, you always use the CLIST CTDCRMIS. This CLIST will automatically create a backup mission definition and a backup skeleton job for you according to the parameters you supply. If specific changes are then required, you can access the backup mission definition using the Online facility.

You can also define the backup mission parameters using the screens of the Control-D Online facility. The definitions that you create are saved in the Control-D backup missions library. Note that because the definitions are saved in a partitioned dataset (PDS), you should ensure that the PDS is backed up regularly in case you lose your definitions due to a DASD error.

In this section, we will offer recommendations on specific parameters that you will define in your backup mission definitions. Shown below is a summary of the information that you will specify. We have split the information into five distinct steps. For a detailed explanation, see the printing, backup, and restore mission parameters chapter of the Control-D and Control-V User Guide.

We will use the following five-step guide to explain how to define backup missions. Each step corresponds to a particular category of the backup mission parameters:

1. General mission information (General Parameters).
2. When to schedule the mission (Basic Scheduling parameters).
3. When to execute the mission (Runtime Scheduling parameters).
4. Archive information (Archive parameters).
5. What to do upon termination of the mission (Post-Processing parameters).

Backup Mission Parameters Definition Screen

  ---- CONTROL-D CATEGORY                      BKP MISSION BKP0031D --------(M.S)

  COMMAND ===>                                                    SCROLL===> CRSR

   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

   CATEGORY PROD                              MISSION BKP0031D                 

   OWNER    M90           TASKTYPE BKP        GROUP                           

   DESC                                                                        

   ===========================================================================

   DAYS                                                          DCAL         

                                                                      AND/OR   

   WDAYS                                                         WCAL         

   MONTHS  1- Y 2- Y 3- Y 4- Y 5- Y 6- Y 7- Y 8- Y 9- Y 10- Y 11- Y 12- Y      

   DATES                                                                       

   CONFCAL          SHIFT   RETRO N MAXWAIT 00                                 

   MINIMUM          PDS                                                        

   ===========================================================================

   IN                                                                          

   TIME FROM      TO      NOT LATER THAN      PRIORITY                        

   ===========================================================================

   # OF DAYS TO KEEP 0031                     # OF GENERATIONS TO KEEP 0000   

   ===========================================================================

   OUT                                                                        

   SHOUT WHEN                                      TO                   URGN   

    MSG                                                                        

======= >>>>>>> END OF BACKUP MISSION PARAMETERS OF THIS CATEGORY <<<<<< ======

PLEASE FILL IN MISSION PARAMETERS. USE "SHPF" TO SEE PFK DEFINITION     15.15.36