The Stand-Alone Services function is available to all supported releases of DFSMSdss. This latest version of IBM®’s Stand-Alone restore function is a single-purpose program. It is designed to allow the system programmer to restore vital system packs during disaster recovery without needing to rely on a z/OS® environment. Stand-Alone Services runs independently of a system environment either as a "true" stand-alone system or under a VM system.

Stand-Alone Services can perform either a full-volume or a tracks restore from dump tapes that are produced by DFSMSdss or DFDSS.

Related reading: For additional information about the DFSMSdss Stand-Alone Services function, see z/OS DFSMSdfp Storage Administration.