Rex, Look for old xephon archives in the cbt tape website. There used to be a program called SMSASIST.
Natarajan >>> "Pommier, Rex R." <[email protected]> 3/17/2009 12:52 PM >>> Hi list, I checked the documentation and the archives and either what I want to do isn't available or I missed it, so please bear with me. Is there some way to change the management class of a number of SMS managed datasets (roughly 10,000 so I don't really want to IDCAMS ALTER all of them)? My situation is that before I got here, the decision was made to use the same management class for test and production datasets. This class has "never expire" set on it. I want to create a new management class for the test datasets that has an expiration date so that since the developers don't clean up after themselves, I can. However, I have about 10K test datasets that still have the production mgmt class assigned to them. The vast majority of these datasets are on ML2 tapes and I would like there to be some way to tell SMS to assign the new mgmt class to all these datasets so they automatically get migrated to the bit bucket. Some of the test datasets are over 10 years old and the developers have agreed that there should be an automatic purge of them (the datasets, not the developers...). >From what I've gathered, the new mgmt class will only apply to new datasets or the old ones if they get migrated or recalled, but I can't mass change these old datasets while they are at rest. TIA for any help you can provide. Rex NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY The information contained in this communication, including but not limited to any accompanying document(s) and/or attachment(s), is privileged and confidential and is intended solely for the above-named individual(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please be advised that any distribution, copying, disclosure, and/or use of the information contained herein is strictly prohibited. If you received this communication in error, please destroy all copies of the communication, whether in electronic or hard copy format, and immediately contact the Security Office at EDFUND at (916) 526-7539 or [email protected]. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

