The following limitations apply to FlashCopy® V1 and FlashCopy V2:
- A volume participating in a FlashCopy V1
relationship cannot accept a request to establish a FlashCopy V2 relationship for any track
on that volume.
- A volume containing tracks which are participating in a FlashCopy V2 relationship
cannot accept a request to establish a FlashCopy V1 relationship on that volume.
- A FlashCopy establish
request fails if the specified target device or the specified target
tracks are currently on a PPRC secondary.
- A FlashCopy establish
request fails if the specified target device or the specified target
tracks are currently on a PPRC primary, unless YES is specified in
the TGTPPRIM keyword.
- A FlashCopy source
device cannot be a secondary (target) device in any PPRC operation
for FlashCopy V1 enabled
devices.
- FlashCopy target
tracks must not be established on a device that is currently acting
as a target device in any of the following copy services functions:
XRC, Concurrent Copy.
- A FlashCopy COPY operation
might complete initialization successfully, but the background copy
might not start immediately due to workload processing in the ESS.