Miklos, The product I mentioned, ProSMS (StopX37), has been around as a vendor product for many years, even before IBM's DFSMS was born. If you want more information about it, see "BMC MAINVIEW Allocation" (that's its current name). In a big, traditional non-SMS shop, where I have worked, this product has been a lifesaver for many years, controlling DASD dataset allocations, preventing Sx37 - abends and doing other space management functions under the covers that make life of a storage admin a lot easier.
IMHO, the only things you can do with undefined DSORG datasets are (1) throw them away ... make that a DASD management policy: if undefined DSORG, delete after 7 days (or so). (2) change them after x days unused to force DSORG=PS and then let your normal space management processes handle them / dispose of them (archive, expire, etc). The PDS program on CBT tape has a function which allows the dataset's DSORG to be set to PS. There might be others, too. Regards, Ulrich Krueger -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miklos Szigetvari Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 09:38 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Migrate with undefined DSORG Hi Thank you Ulrich Krueger wrote: >Miklos, >DFHSM does not migrate datasets with unspecified DSORG. You should be >getting a corresponding ARC... error message. >Question(s): Do these datasets contain data that you can read/write with a >program? If so, what is it? >Or are they just allocated space that was never opened by a program (so that >the DCB could be properly filled in with all attributes including DSORG)? > > This is the case. The datasets only allocated, but never opened, and as I don't see the users intention, I don't want to delete them. >Are these datasets referenced and actually used (open, read/write, close) in >any production JCL? >I suspect that you may be able to just delete these datasets. >OTOH, if you have ProSMS (aka StopX37), you could use it to force open/close >any dataset allocated in JCL that is not opened/closed by the executing >program. That ensures a valid DSORG and the dataset now becomes a candidate >for automatic DFHSM space management, incr. Backup and migration. > > We don't have this ProSMS (Is it a freeware ? ) We have a utility which processes the DCOLLECT outputs, I will try to insert here to open this dataset's >Regards, >Ulrich Krueger > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
