CopyExport Manager (CEM)

Issue - Although IBM delivers some code and JCL to help the user with the copy export process, users will still need to program and customize this code to work at their site; as well as support the code internally as their environment changes. Solution - CEM will provide a total solution that can be customized to meet your needs through simple parameter selection.  CEM will add/update the tape management systems with the vaulted physical tape so the tapes can be vaulted via your normal tape management process.   Copy export does not check available tape drives and available scratch pools before starting the copy export process nor monitor console messages to ensure the complete success of the copy export process.  Without CEM, the customer needs to manually watch for errors.

Issue - There is no assurance that the copy export process was completed correctly or that the desired data is sent off-site.  Here are a couple of critical questions that need to be answered:

• Did the critical tape datasets get written to the CE volumes?
• Are these CE volumes vaulted?

Solution - The CEM Audit process will produce detailed reports, including:

• Out-coded virtual tapes that are not on a CE tape.
• A D/R pull list which highlights the CE tape with the most current TS7740 database.
• Tape utilization as a percentage of tape capacity.

Issue - What happens if you have a damaged physical tape containing thousands of virtual volumes?  If you get a BVIR report, you can get a list of which virtual volumes were on the physical tape.  You could then write a program to take the list of virtual volumes and produce a list of copy export volumes that contained the virtual volumes that you want to recover.

Solution - CEM can create a report to let you know what datasets reside on which CE tapes to facilitate  local recovery and provide a list of tape datasets on each volume thus making it easier  to recover a damaged physical back-end tape.

Issue - The copy export documentation states that you need to identify the most “recent copy export tape” which contains the most up-to-date TS7740 database and then you need to bring all the copy export tapes to your D/R exercise.   How can you be sure you have the most current tape containing the latest database?

Solution - CEM will include a report during the audit process that details the most current TS7740 database and all the copy export tapes.  CEM goes beyond just listing everything.  Some customers may have multiple companies/divisions using the same TS7740.  They may also have a different copy export pool for each company to keep their files on separate copy export tapes.  During the CopyExport Manager audit process, CEM will provide a report for each separate pool so only the copy export tapes needed for a specific customer test can be sent to the D/R exercise thus limiting exposure of losing other company tapes.

Issue - Without the CopyExport Manager database, users are forced to manually determine which tapes are the correct tapes for recovery.

Solution - The purpose of the CopyExport Manager database is to merge the TS7740 BVIR and tape management data to identify which are the correct tapes for D/R. This allows CEM to audit the copy export process and allow the customer to drill down into which datasets are on which physical tape (both primary and copy export tapes).   The CEM database will also be used to create detailed recovery reports and can also be used for IT audits to meet governance and compliance requirements.