Do I really want to restore these datasets? – let me check first.

I needed to restore a product which had shipped files in ADRDSSU BACKUP format.

Before following the instructions and creating lots of files, I thought it would be useful to see what’s going to happen. You can do this by specifying

//S2 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,REGION=0M,PARM='TYPRUN=NORUN'

This shows you what will happen, but does not do any of the work.

My JCL was originally

//S1      EXEC PGM=AMATERSE,PARM=UNPACK 
//SYSPRINT DD  SYSOUT=* 
//SYSUT1 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=COLIN.PROD.TRS 
//SYSUT2 DD DSN=&&TEMP,SPACE=(CYL,(500,500)),DISP=(,PASS) 
//* 

//S2        EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,REGION=0M,PARM='TYPRUN=NORUN' 
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* 
//DD1      DD DISP=SHR,DSN=*.S1.SYSUT2 
//SYSIN    DD * 
  RESTORE - 
  IMPORT - 
  INDDNAME(DD1) - 
  CANCELERROR - 
  DATASET(INCLUDE(**)) - 
  RENAMEU( - 
  (**.PRODANLC,COLIN.PRODANLC) - 
  (**.PRODANLE,COLIN.PRODANLE) - 
...

The output had

ADR489I (001)-TDLOG(01), DATA SET COLIN.PRODANLC WAS SELECTED         
ADR489I (001)-TDLOG(01), DATA SET COLIN.PRODANLE WAS SELECTED         

This would create datasets like COLIN.PRODANLC which I did not want to use.
I wanted to include the version and release so I used

(**.PRODANLC,COLIN.PROD321.PRODANLC) - 
(**.PRODANLE,COLIN.PROD321.PRODANLE) - 

and my files came out COLIN.PROD321.PRODANLC etc.

This saved me a lot of time – having to delete many data sets with the wrong name.

Whoops – I should have defined a security profile.

When I restored from the backup, the output included

ADR755W (001)-PROTD(01), SOURCE DATA SET BETA.PROD.OUT.PRODANLC WAS GENERICALLY PROTECTED. THE TARGET DATA SET COLIN.PROD321.PRODANLC IS NOT PROTECTED BY ANY PROFILE                                        

I defined a RACF profile

tso addsd 'COLIN.PROD321.**' uacc(NONE)  

and when I retested it I did not get the ADR755W messages.

You should define the profile before you restore the files. If you do not, there is a small chance that someone could change the unprotected file. If you define the profile first – the file is protected from the moment it is created.