On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:28:39 -0400, Mark Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Shane Ginnane wrote: >> Quoting Mark Zelden: >> >> >>> Why not migrate them directly to ML2 with HSM? That is what we do. >>> They are only on DASD for a short time. >>> >> >> We use MPF to kick off a task to extract the dump summary and create an >> ISPF table I use to manage the dumps. The dump itself is flicked to ML2 >> - on virtual tapes these days, so I can get them back in next to no time >> in need. >> They stay there till I decide otherwise - I prefer to have too many than >> delete one I might need later on. My (manual) purge window is around the >> 3 month mark (picked out of the air, no science involved). >> >> Shane ... >> >> > >We also use the dynamic dump allocation process and send them to our TMM >pool where they sit for three days, HSM then migrates them to tape where >they automatically expire in six months, a date I also picked out the air. > >-- I just looked at dump the MGMTCLAS and ours is set for 30 days. I can't imagine needing a dump 6 months after it happened, but tape is cheap. How old is the oldest dump you recall having to go back to? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
