I understand and have experienced, DFHSM does indeed sort multiple (NOWAIT) requests such that tape mounts are minimized.
Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 3:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: DFHSM Recalls and Tape > > Just want to make sure I understand what IBM told me once. > > Is it true that when you have a large number of recalls (and I am talking > 10,000 or more at a time) that HSM will identify which ones are on which > migration tapes and stack them accordingly. Or is it still a manual process > of > identifying which datasets are on what migration tapes and doing the recalls > in tape volser bundle? > > For example I may have 3000 datasets on tape V00012. So I would pull a list > of datasets on that tape and then issue the recall for all of those files in > one > recall bunch. > > Or could I recall all 10,000 files and HSM will recall the datasets all from > the > same tape at one time and not do mount tape, unmount tape, mount tape, > unmount tape and so on. > > Thanks > > Lizette > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
