You use this dialog box to issue the DFSMShsm BACKVOL command to back up all eligible data sets on the selected volumes. To learn about the standard capabilities of a dialog box, see Standard tabs in the dialog boxes of the Storage Toolkit. The topic includes a link to the Reference guides for commands that are used in the Storage Toolkit.
The action supplies the following information to the service:
For data sets not managed by SMS, you can target data sets that have not been backed up in the last n days, where n ranges from 0 to 999.
With Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Storage on z/OS Version 4.2.0 Interim Feature 3 or later, you can select *SMSVOLG or *USRVOLG as an attribute of the command variable on the Command tab of the Volume Backup dialog box. *SMSVOLG represents a dynamic set of volumes within the storage group which will be resolved at job submission time. *USRVOLG represents a dynamic set of volumes within the USER DASD storage group which will be resolved at job submission time.