Physical data set restore

A physical data set restore is done if you are restoring from a dump volume created by physical dump processing and you specify the DATASET keyword. If the dump volumes resulted from a physical data set dump operation, you must do a physical data set restore or a tracks restore operation. A tracks restore operation can consist of a subset of the dump data.

Note:

When you perform a physical restore of many data sets, there is an initial delay while DFSMSdss allocates the target data sets.
To prevent index components from being restored inadvertently, you must specify the fully qualified name of the cluster.

On a physical data set restore operation, data sets from one or more logical volumes can be restored to a single DASD volume. If you want to restore data sets from specific source DASD volumes, use the LOGICALVOLUME keyword to specify the volume serial numbers of the source DASD volumes you want to restore. For example:

RESTORE  -
        INDDNAME(TAPE) OUTDDNAME(DASD1)  -
        DATASET(INCLUDE(**)) LOGICALVOLUME(111111)  -
        REPLACE

The following data sets cannot be processed by physical data set DUMP or RESTORE operations:

VSAM data sets not cataloged in an integrated catalog facility catalog.
Page, swap, and SYS1.STGINDEX data sets.

Note: Data from a specific volume can be restored only to a DASD volume of like device type.