Overview: Steps for cloning volumes with EMC TimeFinder/Mirror
Perform these steps if you want to use EMC TimeFinder/Mirror to ESTABLISH, SPLIT, and RE-ESTABLISH BCV mirrors to create the volume copies. You still use IMS Cloning Tool to copy the ICF catalogs, rename the target data sets, and perform other “conditioning” to make the IMS clones usable. For detailed information about EMC TimeFinder/Mirror, see the EMC TimeFinder documentation.
Overview
| Cloning Steps |
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| Step 1: FINDUCATS step (optional) Optional step that you perform once or occasionally to find the ICF user catalogs that point to the source-volume data sets. |
| Step 2: ESTABLISH step This EMC TimeFinder/Mirror step establishes the BCV mirrors. RE-ESTABLISH step. If you previously established and split the mirrors, you can perform a RE-ESTABLISH to resynchronize the mirror pairs. |
| Step 3: Quiesce source volume activity Stop source IMS subsystem. See Cloning IMS subsystems for more instructions on stopping your IMS subsystem. These instructions are a prerequisite to Step 4. |
| Step 4: SPLIT step This EMC TimeFinder/Mirror step splits the BCV mirrors. |
| Step 5: COPY step This step backs up the source ICF catalogs that point to the source-volume data sets. The backup occurs when the mirroring tool or a P.I.T. copy tool performs a split. |
| Step 6: Resume access to the source volumes. Restart source IMS subsystem. See Cloning IMS subsystems for more information about restarting your IMS subsystem. |
| Step 7: RENAME step This step renames and catalogs the target-volume data sets. |
| Step 8: IMS cloning to update the IMS internals on the target volume. See the offline or online cloning topics in Cloning IMS subsystems for more instructions. The instructions for conditioning the clone are a prerequisite to Step 9. |
| Step 9: Access target volumes |
| Step 10: BCSCLEAN step (optional but recommended) Optional step that runs after target volume usage is terminated and before the next COPY. This step is recommended. |