Allan, I guess I am showing my lack of experience on this topic, but what does EXPIREDDATASETS setting have to do with whether or not the tapes are being released or not?
Am I misunderstanding the book? From the HSM administrators guide: "During automatic primary space management, the example scratches expired data sets that have valid explicit expiration dates in the data set's VTOC entry. The EXPIREDDATASETS parameter of the SETSYS command specifies the SCRATCH subparameter indicating for DFSMShsm to scratch any data set that has passed the expiration date." _________________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Services [email protected] 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 10:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DFSMSHSM is a not deleting expired datasets Sounds like a good setup, the EDM reference will scratch the tape when DFHSM says it is done with it. However, since you are not expiring datasets, very few, if any tapes are being released. Of course, since you work for the legal system, they might not want things scratched.... Check with the powers that be before proceeding... IMO, change EXPIREDDATASETS to SCRATCH and bite the bullet. The first secondary space management that runs will do a lot of work. HTH, <snip> I have HSM set as an External Data Manager in CA1 (EDM=HSM,PGM=ARCCTL in CTOEDM00). My SYS1.PARMLIB(ARCCMD00) specifies EXPIREDDATASETS(NOSCRATCH). For those with CA1 and EDM specified, how is yours set up? What reason would a shop have to specify NOSCRATCH? Can you tell I haven't supported HSM before? :-) (Always been in places with FDR, or had a separate team doing storage "stuff" for the past 20 years or so.) </snip> Cheers,,,Steve Steven F. Conway, CISSP LA Systems z/OS Systems Support Phone: 703.295.1926 [email protected] This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
