The Stand-Alone restore function is a single-purpose program 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 from a system environment either as a "true" stand-alone system or under a VM system.

This topic helps you to prepare your environment before you IPL and run the Stand-Alone Services program. Information is provided about running Stand-Alone Services in different processor operating modes, running with a predefined console, setting up tape library and device options, and using command syntax and processing options.

The Stand-Alone Services program operates on an IBM® System/390® processor in either S/390® mode or S/370 mode. The Stand-Alone Services program can run on a processor that is in BASIC or LPAR mode, or you can run the Stand-Alone Services program in a virtual machine under VM.

CP SET ECMODE ON