PCSEVBR - Restore FAQS/PCS Back-Up Tape in MVS

PCSEVBR is an MVS utility program which processes FAQS/PCS back-up tapes created in the VSE environment with the PCSEVBR utility. Using PCSEVBR, an OS/390 or z/OS installation can restore VSE JCL streams from a back-up tape and load them into a partitioned data set (PDS or PDSE).

PCSEVBR was initially designed for VSE sites which migrate to MVS and have their VSE JCL stored in FAQS/PDS libraries. PCSEVBR can be used during the course of the VSE/MVS conversion to facilitate the transfer of application JCL streams to the MVS conversion environment.

PCSEVBR extracts JCL streams from the FAQS/PCS back-up tape and generates an input stream which can then be loaded into a PDS using IEBUPDTE or PDSUTIL.

PCSEVBR produces several reports, including a list of extracted members.

Sample JCL (RESTORE)

Restore the FAQS/PCS back-up tape into a sequential data set and load its contents into a Partitioned Data Set.

  //PCSEVBR JOB (ACCT#),'Load FAQS/PCS Tape',
  // NOTIFY=&SYSUID,
  // CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=X
  //JOBLIB   DD DSN=<PCSEVBR load library>,DISP=SHR
  //*
  //*     Load FAQS/PCS Back-up Tape into a PDS
  //*
  //PCSEVBR EXEC PGM=PCSEVBR,PARM=V612346
  //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
  //MEMBERS  DD SYSOUT=*
  //*
  //TAPEIN   DD UNIT=TAPE,VOL=SER=612346,LABEL=(,NL)
  //*
  //SYSUT2   DD DSN=PCSEVBR.IEBUPDTE.INPUT,DISP=(,CATLG),
  // UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(TRK,2500,RLSE)
  //*
  //*     Load VSE JCL into PCSEVBR.VSEJCL
  //*
  //LOADPDS EXEC PGM=IEBUPDTE,PARM=NEW
  //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
  //*
  //SYSIN    DD DSN=PCSEVBR.IEBUPDTE.INPUT,DISP=SHR
  //*
  //SYSUT2   DD DSN=PCSEVBR.VSEJCL,DISP=(,CATLG),
  // UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(TRK,(500,,240))