Recovering specific data sets

DFSMShsm recovers specific data sets to non-SMS-managed volumes under the following conditions:
You can issue the following additional commands to recover a non-SMS-managed data set: The processing for recovering non-SMS-managed data sets is the same as for SMS-managed data sets with the following exceptions:

To request that DFSMShsm recover backup versions of data sets that were uncataloged when DFSMShsm backed them up, specify the FROMVOLUME parameter of the RECOVER command. If you do not specify FROMVOLUME, DFSMShsm recovers a backup version of a cataloged data set with the same name even though the data set may no longer be cataloged.

When a generation data set is recovered, it is recovered as an ordinary non-GDS data set.

Note:
  1. DFSMShsm fails the recovery of a non-SMS generation data set that is not currently cataloged, and whose corresponding generation data group is no longer defined.
  2. DFSMShsm fails the recovery of a non-SMS generation data set that is not currently cataloged, and whose corresponding generation data group is not found through generic catalog locate.

To request that an SMS-managed data set be recovered to a non-SMS-managed volume, specify the FORCENONSMS and TOVOLUME parameters.