An alternative way to have GDGs defined at the recovery site is
to specify a GDG base name in the ALLOCATE statement and have ABARS
predefine the GDG base name during ARECOVER processing. This can be
done even if the installation has not specified an associated GDS
name in the selection data set. During ARECOVER processing, all GDG
base names are defined before restoring any GDSs specified in the
aggregate. GDG base names specified in the ALLOCATE statement have
the following restrictions:
- They are only defined if they do not already exist at the recovery
site.
- The DSCONFLICT parameter of the ARECOVER command does not apply to these GDG base names.
- The ARCCREXT installation exit does not get
control when active for conflicts that arise with GDG base names in
the ALLOCATE statement.
- RECOVERNEWNAMELEVEL and RECOVERNEWNAMEALL do apply
to these GDG base names.