Dave, I would definitely recommend you pick up the phone and call the Innovation folks to discuss any misunderstandings you might have with the operation of FDR/ABR. They'll only be too happy to talk with you and review what it is you are doing.
As for your comment on a "useful equivalet to HSM recycle", you need to review the documentation on FDRTSEL. Stephen Mednick Computer Supervisory Services Sydney, Australia > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave > Sent: Wednesday, 21 May 2008 5:40 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: FDRABR ARCHIVE > > No, or I've misunderstood the FDR doc. If you specify > catalog retention against the two TAPE DD's, FDR doesn't > assign an expire date to the archive dataset. The archive > will exist until it is uncataloged. > That's why I need two archive steps. One does the NOLIMITs > (that FDRABR flat interprets different than HSM) and the > other does all the other MGMTCLAS's. > The whole backup/archive job has around 40 or 50 steps. A > combination of FDRREPORT, REXX, SORT, DCOLLECT, and FDRABR > steps. I can't decide if it's kludgy or elegant :) > If I'm wrong, I'd like to here about it soon. > What I don't have as yet is a useful equivalent to HSM > recycle. But I'm using virtual tape with 99,999 available volumes. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
