The fact that the MVS Initiator and HSM don't collaborate much is an old story which dates back to the early 1980s IIRC. Members RECALL and CLEANUP in FILE183 on the CBT tape (available here: http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/ ) were developed 20 years ago to avoid HSM to perform useless RESTORE actions and speed-up useful ones.
I hope the recently-updated Initiator knows that IEFBR14 is the 4-byte IBM version, not a special utility program written locally and also called IEFBR14, something I saw at-least once before. The MVS JCL was significantly enhanced in the late 1980s and early 1990s and I wish a number of JCL-related HSM issues were solved at the time. Why did it take 25 years to skip HRESTORE when PGM=IEFBR14 and DISP=(MOD,DELETE) ? How many millions of HSM ML2 tapes had to be mounted for nothing ? -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
