Commands

Command name Release Description Reason for change
CONTROL z/OS® V2R1 Updated: CONFIGURE(DISPLAY) now displays the microcode LIC and bundle level if available. Multi-Target Mirror support.
FLASHCPY ESTABLISH z/OS V2R1 Updated: Restrictions for PRESERVEMIRROR have been updated to indicate that PREFERRED is not valid if the devices specified are in a peer-to-peer multi-target relationship. Multi-Target Mirror support.
FLASHCPY ESTABLISH z/OS V2R1 Updated: New optional value, V2, for the CHANGERECORDING parameter, to allow multiple incremental Flashcopy relationships. Multiple Incremental FlashCopy support.
FLASHCPY QUERY RELATIONS z/OS V2R1 Updated: Response updated to indicate that the volume allows multiple incremental relationships. Multiple Incremental FlashCopy support.
PPRCOPY ESTPAIR z/OS V2R1 Updated: New FAILOVERMT parameter, to request that a multi-target configuration should be created rather than the existing cascaded failover state when doing a failover. Multi-Target Mirror support.
PPRCOPY POPULATESESSION z/OS V2R1 Updated: For JOIN, new MTIVOLLIST and MTRVOLLIST subparameters, for lists of individual volumes or ranges of volumes for a multi-target configuration. Multi-Target Mirror support.
PPRCOPY QUERY z/OS V2R1 Updated: Responses updated for multi-target configuration. Multi-Target Mirror support.
PPRCOPY SETCHARACTERISTICS z/OS V2R1 New: Allows management software to designate a Metro Mirror pair in a multi-target PPRC configuration that must remain full duplex when performing a Remote Pair FlashCopy (Preserve Mirror) operation. Multi-Target Mirror support.
INIT z/OS V1R13 Updated: New keyword RESERVED marks a volume as reserved. Specify the name of the reserve storage pool with the OWNERID keyword, in the form IBMRSPrspname, where rspname is the name of the reserved storage pool. Support for z/OSMF.
INIT z/OS V1R12 Updated: New keyword NODSEXIST requests that volumes that contain data sets other than the index data set or VVDS should not to be initialized. To prevent the accidental initialization of volumes that contain data sets.