Requesting primary volume dump information from the BCDS

Table 1 explains the output labels when you request dump information from the BCDS for primary volumes.

Table 1. Output labels when you request dump information from the BCDS for primary volumes
Printer Output Label (OUTDATASET or SYSOUT) Terminal Label Description
SOURCE VOLSER SOURCEVOL This field contains the volume serial number of the source volume.
GEN GEN This field contains relative generation number of the dump for the volume.
SMS SMS This field indicates whether a volume is SMS-managed.
Value
Meaning
Yes
Identifies the volume as SMS-managed
No
Identifies the volume as non-SMS-managed.
DUMPED DATE This field contains the date of the dump for the volume.
TIME TIME This field contains the time of the dump for the volume.
CLASS DUMPCLASS This field contains the dump class of the primary volume.
EXP DATE EXPDATE This field contains the expiration date of the dump. This may be *NOLIMIT on both the printer listing and on the terminal.

SET OF DUMP
VOLSERS

DUMPVOLS This field contains a list of volume serial numbers of each tape volume used for this dump.

Figure 1 is a sample printer list of the dump information for a specific primary volume.

Figure 1. Sample Printer List from the BCDS when You Specify ALLDUMPS with PRIMARYVOLUME(volser) and BACKUPCONTROLDATASET
-----  DFSMShsm CONTROL DATASET PRIMARY VOLUME-BCDS--- ALLDUMPS----- AT 13:31:36 ON 91/12/31 FOR SYSTEM=SYSA

SOURCE                                                SET OF DUMP
VOLSER GEN SMS  DUMPED     TIME    CLASS     EXP DATE   VOLSERS

PRIM01  00 YES 91/01/31  01:59:05  DCLASS01  *NOLIMIT  TAP011 TAP012 TAP013 TAP014 TAP015 TAP016 TAP017 TAP018 TAP019
                                                       TAP01B TAP01C TAP01D TAP01E TAP01F ****** ****** ****** ******
                                   DCLASS02  91/12/31  TAP021 TAP022 TAP023 TAP024 TAP025 TAP026 TAP027 TAP028 TAP029
        01 NO  90/12/31  00:59:05  DCLASS01  91/11/30  TAP001 TAP002 TAP003 TAP004 TAP005 TAP006 TAP007 TAP008 TAP009
----- END OF - PRIMARY VOLUME - LISTING -----