Jeff, leaving all the concerns alone at the moment ..... Deleting volumes should be straightforward. You do need to consider the scratch volumes and non-scratch volumes separately. Scratch volumes should already have been through release processing and any cataloged data sets uncataloged. RACF profiles deleted (if any). To delete scratch volumes - use the RMM DV volser REMOVE command. Non-scratch volumes you still have this consideration. You can cause the volumes to go through release processing and allow rmm to uncatalog and cleanup RACF. Use the RMM CV volser RELEASE command. Using the RMM DV volser FORCE may not do these tasks for you. You also have some possible cleanup of the VRSes that are causing these non-scratch volumes still to be retained even though they no longer exist.
You can use the SEARCHVOLUME subcommand with CLIST to help build the commands needed. It is very powerful, can be run in TSO or batch, or even with the help of the dialog. Also in the dialog, within search results list, you can use the SELECT primary command to set the line commands for selected entries in the list, then press ENTER to process them. When you are making changes to volumes and other things defined to rmm, it normally creates journal records, and processing also should be creating PDA trace records, Either journal or trace data sets can become full when making mass changes - as others have mentioned. In a well-run environment there should already be automation to take care of these things. Deleting volumes should not usually cause space problems in the CDS. Rather it should free up space that can be reused. However, depending on how old the volumes are, and when the records were last updated, causing a change to a record may cause the record to be stored back larger than before ..... Again, usually, this extra space can be accommodated by VSAM without needing to split CIs/CAs. Another way to delete volumes, which was added more recently to rmm, is to use the REPLACE release action. Probably best for non-scratch volumes, use RMM CV volser RELEASE(REPLACE) command then release the volume. Once pending release you can use RMM DV volser REPLACE to delete them without going through return to scratch process. Mike Wood ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
