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BACKUP DEVCONFIG (Create Backup Copies of Device Configuration Information)

Use this command to back up device class definitions in one or more files.

To restore the TSM database, device configuration information must be available.

You can use the DEVCONFIG server option to specify one or more files in which to store device configuration information. TSM updates the files whenever a device class is defined, updated, or deleted.

In order to ensure updates are complete before the server is halted, we recommend you:

Privilege Class

To issue this command, you must have system privilege or unrestricted storage privilege.

Syntax

>>-BAckup DEVCONFig--+-----------------------------+-----------><
                     |            .-,------------. |
                     |            V              | |
                     '-Filenames=-----filename---+-'
 
 

Parameters

Filenames
Specifies the files in which to store device configuration information. You can specify multiple files by separating the names with commas and no intervening spaces. This parameter is optional.

If you do not specify a file name, TSM stores the information in all files specified with the DEVCONFIG option in the server options file.

Note:
The dataset names you provide for server options, such as DEVCONFIG, are treated according to MVS conventions. A dataset name enclosed in quotation marks is treated by MVS as a fully qualified name. TSM does not prefix a qualifier to the name you provide.

To specify a fully qualified name, you must enclose the name in single quotation marks, and then surround the single-quoted name string in double quotation marks, such as "'user1.volume.devconf1'". Separate file name strings with commas and no intervening spaces, such as "'user1.volume.devconf1'","'user1.volume.devconf2'". For more information, see Command Entry Rules.

TSM treats a name not enclosed in quotation marks as a partially qualified name. When a dataset is opened, MVS/RACF(R) may prefix a qualifier to the dataset name provided. The prefix depends on what has been set up during installation and on the TSM job submitted to start the server.

Examples

Task

Back up device configuration information to a file named DEVICE.

Command:
backup devconfig filenames=device

Related Commands

Table 17. Commands Related to BACKUP DEFCONFIG

Command Description
DEFINE DEVCLASS Defines a device class.
UPDATE DEVCLASS Changes the attributes of a device class.


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