The AUTORESTORE command displays or sets the system archiving AUTORESTORE option. This option, in conjunction with the AUTORESTORE task attribute, determines whether or not the system automatically tries to reload a backup copy of a disk file when a NO FILE condition occurs for a nonresident disk file.

Syntax

Explanation

AUTORESTORE

Displays the current value for the archiving option.

AUTORESTORE DONTCARE

Sets the default value of the AUTORESTORE task attribute to FALSE for every task.

AUTORESTORE NEVER

Specifies that the archiving restoration process is not to be started automatically when a NO FILE condition occurs. This value overrides the AUTORESTORE task attribute value for all tasks and jobs.

AUTORESTORE YES

Sets the default value for the AUTORESTORE task attribute to TRUE for every task. The archiving restoration process is automatically started when a NO FILE condition occurs.

Example

The following example specifies that the system never automatically starts an archiving restoration process.

AUTORESTORE NEVER