If you are looking through a saveset for a specific file that occurs more than once, is there a way to stop the backup/select command at the first filename match?
This is an automated batch job and needs to exit the stated DCL command above as soon as it finds the first filename.txt. It is currently taking 5 minutes to search the saveset and will take longer which is not acceptable.
Is there a qualifier for the backup command that will tell it to abort once a flag is set?
Normally savesets are written to tapes (in former lifes) and these are very hard to read backwards, at least the performance would suffer. For disksavesets this may be an idea to pass to Guy P.
I would have just done a listing first then search the listing for the first instance of the filename.txt file. Then parse that into a backup script to actually restore the file.
I normally would use files and batch jobs with log files so that I could then append all the logs together to show a successful restore and exactly what was restored.
The usage of backup journal files BACKUP/JOURNAL - recorded during the backup operation - would also allow to create a listing of all files in the backup savesets without the need to re-read the whole saveset.
