DFSMSdss Considerations for dumping the journal volume

If the volume containing DFSMShsm’s journal data set is dumped by invoking DFSMSdss for a full volume dump, then the DFSMShsm journal resource

QNAME=ARCGPA, RNAME=ARCRJRN

and the SYSTEM resource

QNAME=SYSVTOC, RNAME=volser-containing-journal

must be treated consistently, that is, both treated as local resources or both treated as global resources.

Attention: Failure to treat journal resources consistently may result in lockouts or long blockages of DFSMShsm processing.

As most customers treat the SYSVTOC resource generically, you will most likely serialize the journal resource the same way you do the SYSVTOC. Example: If you exclude the SYSVTOC, you will also exclude the journal by using the following statements:

   RNLDEF RNL(EXCL) TYPE(GENERIC) QNAME(SYSVTOC)
   RNLDEF RNL(EXCL) TYPE(GENERIC) QNAME(ARCGPA)

or if you convert the SYSVTOC, you can convert the journal by using the following statements:

   RNLDEF RNL(CON) TYPE(GENERIC) QNAME(SYSVTOC)
   RNLDEF RNL (EXCL) TYPE (SPECIFI) QNAME (ARCGPA) RNAME('ARCMCDS ')
   RNLDEF RNL (EXCL) TYPE (SPECIFI) QNAME (ARCGPA) RNAME('ARCBCDS ')
   RNLDEF RNL (EXCL) TYPE (SPECIFI) QNAME (ARCGPA) RNAME('ARCOCDS ')
   RNLDEF RNL(CON) TYPE(SPECIFIC) QNAME(ARCGPA) RNAME('ARCRJRN ')