Mainframe Enablers TimeFinder SnapVX and zDP 8.5 Product Guide

You normally run TimeFinder/Clone Mainframe Snap Facility as a batch job. The JCL is as follows:

//EMCSNAP  EXEC PGM=EMCSNAP,REGION=0M
//STEPLIB  DD   DISP=SHR,DSN=ds_prefix.LINKLIB
//SYSABEND DD   SYSOUT=*
//QCOUTPUT DD   SYSOUT=*
//QCERROR  DD   SYSOUT=*
//SCF$nnnn DD   DUMMY
//QCINPUT  DD   * 

Where:

• ds_prefix is the product dataset name prefix that you specified during installation of Mainframe Enablers as described in the Mainframe Enablers Installation and Customization Guide.
• nnnn identifies the ResourcePak Base task that the TimeFinder/Clone Mainframe Snap Facility job runs against.
• The QCOUTPUT DD statement defines the QCOUTPUT report file that is described in the TimeFinder/Clone Mainframe Snap Facility Product Guide.
• When the QCERROR DD statement is specified, any error messages are written to the QCERROR file and to the QCOUTPUT report file.
• The QCINPUT DD statement can reference a disk file: DISP=SHR,DSN=dsn.
  NOTE:You can also use the DD statement //EMCGROUP DD to reference the statement group dataset.