Hi, We are trying to lasso the extreme growth/size that our hsm has grown to in the last 2 years. The a large majority of our tapes (virtual) seem to tied to hsm backups. One big side-issue is that the lions share of our sms management classes all specify Expire-Non-Usage of Nolimit and also Expire Date/Days also of Nolimit....so basically, we still have datasets created during the Reagan administration. I was toying with trying to get buy-in from our management to at least allow some managment classes to be changed from say, Nolimit to say Expire-Non-Usage of 730 or whatever, so that 1) old-moldy datasets go away and 2) thus their hsm backups would also go away after the Retain-Days ran out. and that way can start shaving off some of our hsm tapes that way
Nosing around in ISMF, I pulled up a management class, named "standtso" that has Expire-Non-Usage of 550 and Expire-Days of Nolimit. So, my interpretation of that is that if any dataset with the management class of standtso, would expire, and thus be deleted if not opened in the last 550 days. The questions I have arise that I see quite a number of standtso datasets with "Last Referenced Date" in the 1990's !? Some are not even hsm-migrated. Shouldn't any and all datasets that have a Last-Referenced-Date before 2011 be gone due to this Expire-Non-Usage of 550? And a couple side-bar questions....in ISMF option 1 Datasets. It seems like if I enter *.** for dataset name, it tacks my userid as the HLQ of the resulting list. If I wanted all datasets that are in management class "standard". I can page down and type criteria Management class ame eq standard........but how do I get ALL such datasets without having to do something like single-quoted dataset name 'A.**' then 'B.**' then 'C.**' etc. If I type single quoted '*.**' it wants a catalog name Is the only way to specify all datasets, ie single-quoted '*.**' is to do so one catalog name at a time? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
