Lizette,

One caveat, if I may. Is your user submitting 5000 Hrecalls or are they 
submitting a process which will result in 5000 recalls? The latter could result 
in 5000 tape mounts.

Dave O'Brien

-----Original Message-----
From: Lizette Koehler [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 9:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: DFHSM Recalls and Tape

Everyone thanks so much for confirming what I was told.

Where my problem arises is when a user wants to recall 5000 or more datasets.  
I was concerned that the recall process would serialize it rather than finding 
all the files on a given migration tape and work with it until it needed a new 
tape.

Very helpful

Lizette


> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On
Behalf
> Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
> 
> Hervey,
> 
> That is not true, at least not at this shop. HSM routinely queues 
> recalls
according to
> tape volume in order to minimize tape mounts with or without CRQ.
> 
> Dave O'Brien
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hervey Martinez [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 7:55 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: DFHSM Recalls and Tape
> 
> If you have CRQ(Common Recall Queue) set up, then HSM will "look ahead"
and recall
> all files that are on the same tape. Also, with CRQ, you can limit 
> which
LPARS will
> perform recalls and limit them in that manner and all recalls will be
routed to that
> LPAR. Otherwise, the recalls happen one at a time in a FIFO manner.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hervey
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On
Behalf
> Of Robert A. Rosenberg
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 3:58 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: DFHSM Recalls and Tape
> 
> At 20:58 -0500 on 10/10/2012, Mike Schwab wrote about Re: DFHSM 
> Recalls
and
> Tape:
> 
> >When it HSM finishes a recall, it checks the que in order for any 
> >recall on the same tape.  When it reaches the end of the que, it 
> >unmounts the tape, and starts recalling the first waiting dataset on 
> >the que.  Haven't done as massive a quantity as 10,000 though.
> >
> >No sorting of any kind, just checking the que DSN against the list on 
> >the mounted tape.
> 
> So you are saying that as it reads the tape (after it has recalled a 
> file
from the tape) it
> sees the next file on the tape and checks if it is on the queue. It 
> then
either recalls the
> file (if it is on the
> queue) or reads the tape to the next file and does the queue check again.
> 
>  From your "no sort" comment, I assume that it does not order the 
> queue
based on
> restore tape volume but just runs the full queue until it finds the
dataset name or
> reaches the end of the queue. If the latter it seems inefficient since 
> if
the queue was
> ordered by volume serial number it could stop the scan once it reached 
> an
entry on a
> different tape.

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