How to define your dump cycle

Before you start automatic dump, you must define a dump cycle. This environment uses a daily dump cycle. The start date must be today's date or a date that has already passed. You need to use a past date if you are using a dump cycle of more than one day and today is not the first day in the dump cycle.

The command below has the first Y day coincide with the day of 2001/08/26, which is a Sunday. Of the dump classes listed in the next topic, the WEEKLY dump class has a DAY value of 7, so it is dumped on Saturdays. The MONTHLY dump class has a DAY value of 1, so it is dumped on Sundays. Because the DAILY dump class has no DAY value specified, it dumps on all Y days. If an N were in the dump cycle, automatic dump would not dump any volumes on that day.

DEFINE DUMPCYCLE(YYYYYYY CYCLESTARTDATE 2001/08/26)