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IBM System Storage DS6000 Series: Copy Services with IBM System z

9.2.2 Remote FlashCopy management

The commands that can be used when working with the DS6000-provided interface DS CLI
for remote FlashCopy management are listed in Table 9-2.

Table 9-2 Remote FlashCopy using DS CLI commands

9.3 z/OS-provided interfaces

When working in a z/OS environment the operating system provides you with utilities and
commands for local FlashCopy management. Table 9-3 summarizes the commands for the
different FlashCopy functions.

Table 9-3 Local FlashCopy using DFSMSdss, TSO, and ICKDSF commands

Options

Command with DS CLI

Create a FlashCopy

Create a remote FlashCopy

mkremoteflash

Work with an existing FlashCopy

Display a list of FlashCopy relationships

lsremoteflash

Modify a FlashCopy pair that is part of a Global Mirror
relationship to revertible

setremoteflashrevertible

Commit data to the target volume

commitremoteflash

Increment an existing FlashCopy pair

resyncremoteflash
(prerequisites: -record and -persist)

Change the source-target- relationship A->B to B->A

reverseremoteflash

Re-establish contents of target B by contents of source A
as it was during last consistency formation

revertremoteflash

Reset a FlashCopy Consistency Group

not available as remote command

Run new background copy for persistent FlashCopy

rmremoteflash -cp

Terminate FlashCopy

Remove local FlashCopy

rmremoteflash

Is automatically removed as soon as all
data is copied and FlashCopy pair wasn’t
established using the -persist parameter

Note: Remote FlashCopy is not supported with the DS SM or DS Open API interfaces.

Options

Command with
DFSMSdss

Command with
TSO

Command with
ICKDSF

Create a FlashCopy

Create a volume FlashCopy

COPY FULL

FCESTABL

FLASHCPY
ESTABLISH

Create a Data set FlashCopy

COPY DATASET