Backup and recovery functions

The volume-basis operation of DFSMShsm for non-SMS-managed volumes causes differences in how backup is performed. For non-SMS-managed volumes: In addition, you can specify the number of days to retain backup versions of non-SMS-managed data sets only by command parameters for the entire system complex.

A data set backed up from a non-SMS-managed volume can be recovered to an SMS-managed volume if the data set does not already exist, if SMS is active, and if the data set is indicated by the ACS routine to be SMS-managed.