How to identify FDRSOS enabled devices

when i run this command i get a bunch of FBA devices and CKD-3390. When i view devices (symdev show )that supposedly have FDRSOS enabled i see FBA for emulation types ..strange ..what is CKD-3390 then ?

I'm guessing this is a mainframe emulation type?

You can list out all the disks with
symdisk -sid 1234 -v -hypers list all

You'll get output similiar to this. From there if the emulation type is FDRSOS you can pipe it through grep to find only those devices.

# Vol Emulation Dev Type Mirror Status Cap(MB)
--- ---- ---------------- ---- ------------- ------ -------------- --------
16 199 FBA 010E Data 1 Ready 3
17 200 FBA 0123 Data 2 Ready 3
18 201 FBA 0130 Data 1 Ready 1024
19 202 FBA 0131 Data 2 Ready 1024
20 203 FBA 0132 Data 1 Ready 1024
21 204 FBA 0133 Data 2 Ready 1024
1 184 FBA 0298 Data 2 Ready 8714
2 185 FBA 02AD Data 1 Ready 8714
3 186 FBA 02C2 Data 2 Ready 8714
4 187 FBA 02D7 Data 1 Ready 8714

CKD is Count Key Data. The Symmetrix formats the disks in either FBA for open systems or CKD for mainframe.

I'm still not sure what FDRSOS is. I did a google search and it looks like its a backup application that works with TimeFinder. So I'm not sure what kind of devices it uses. If you can tell us what device type it needs, STD, BCV, etc.. that will make it easier to help you.

Hi,

To answer the original question we may still need a Solutions Enabler expert to respond but "F.Y.I." FDRSOS volumes are actually "standard" FBA data volumes presented on the Open Systems FIBRE (or SCSI) channel paths BUT they are ALSO presented on ESCON or FICON channels to a mainframe host for backup purposes (i.e.mainframe hosts typically having those great big tape silo's, etc). The FDRSOS software product for performing these backups are supplied by "Innovation Data Processing" (http://www.innovationdp.fdr.com/). Information on the FDRSOS product can be downloaded (for example) from http://www.fdr.com/pdf/sosn.pdf or http://www.fdr.com/pdf/sos.pdf. I hope this helps....