Defining GDGs at the recovery site

An alternative way to have GDGs defined at the recovery site is to specify a GDG base name in the ALLOCATE statement and have ABARS predefine the GDG base name during ARECOVER processing. This can be done even if the installation has not specified an associated GDS name in the selection data set. During ARECOVER processing, all GDG base names are defined before restoring any GDSs specified in the aggregate. GDG base names specified in the ALLOCATE statement have the following restrictions:

• They are only defined if they do not already exist at the recovery site.
• The DSCONFLICT parameter of the ARECOVER command does not apply to these GDG base names.
• The ARCCREXT installation exit does not get control when active for conflicts that arise with GDG base names in the ALLOCATE statement.
• RECOVERNEWNAMELEVEL and RECOVERNEWNAMEALL do apply to these GDG base names.