Well, I read this: http://www.bookserver.ces.klm.nl/bookmgr-cgi/EPHBOOKS/FRAMESET/MVSDATA.B OOKMGR.ZOSV1R11.DGT2S680.BOOK/1.6.4.7?SHELF=MVSDATA.BOOKMGR.ZOSV1R11.DGT 2BK91.BKSHELF&DT=20090610113354&ACTION=MATCHES&REQUEST=Retain+Days+Extra +Backup&TYPE=FUZZY&CASE=&searchIndex=INDEX&searchText=TEXT&searchTopic=T OPIC&rank=RANK&ScrollTOP=FIRSTHIT#FIRSTHIT
it only speaks about the age of the extra backups, not about the date they became extra backups. I agree with you about how it should be working, but I am afraid it is not. Typically IBM: technically fully correct, but logically completely useless. Kees. "Staller, Allan" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>... > I have not tested this, but I disagree. > > To use your example below, ..."on day 100 ... elided ... will be > deleted immediately". In my experience the "extra backup" counter will > begin at day 100, add 50 and the "extra backup" will expire on day 151. > > Since I also run EXPIREBV on a daily basis, this may be setting the > "extra backup" counter. > > The dfHSM manuals are really quite good about providing the details. > See :" Availability management of SMS-managed storage" in > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2S6A1/CCON > TENTS?SHELF=dgt2bkb1&DN=SC35-0421-13&DT=20120123164451 > > (watch the wrap) > > HTH, > > <snip> > I think I found out what the SMS Retain Days Extra Backup Versions > exactly means and want to make sure I am right. If I am right, I am not > happy with it. > > > > A dataset has a mgmtclas with attribute SMS retain days extra backups = > 50. On day 10 backup#1 is taken. On day 100 the dataset is updated and > backup#2 is taken. If I am right, backup#1 receives an expiration date > of day 60 and will be deleted immediately. So if I discover the next day > that the update was incorrect, I want to restore backup#1, but it is not > there anymore. > </snip> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
