What type of VTS? If a TS7700 family you can set some retention periods in there that will keep the "tape" after a certain length before it totally gone even after a scratch occurs.
Is this a normal occurrence or rare? If more normal I would look at the retention rules for those datasets and confer with the owners if they are needed longer than they think Lizette -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 6:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Looking for a CA-1 feature. Hello group, I am looking for a feature in CA-1, that I wished to be there, but that is not there as far as I can find. Maybe someone has a good idea. I am looking at implenting disk-tape conversion for large datasets, i.e. write them directly to tape i.s.o. to disk. Since we have a VTS, with more than sufficient virtual units and more than sufficient performance, we have a potential group of large datasets, that can well be placed on tape. It has some restrictions of course, like dsorg and parallel access, but that is no problem. There is only one issue, that bothers me when the dataset is under CA-1 control i.s.o. SMS control. Under SMS, I can specify, with 'retain days only backup', how long the last backup should be retained after the dataset has been expired, scratched or removed in some way. This enables panic questions "the dataset is correctly expired, but yet I suddenly need it after one month" to be answered and even sometimes produces edible or drinkable presents from happy clients. I am looking for a similar feature under CA-1 control, but I cannot find it. The extended retention options do not give the same result, the dataset is available and cataloged, while under SMS it will be uncataloged and virtually gone. In the CA-1 situation the user can process the dataset and is not aware of the fact that the data was not planned to be available, which he/she would have noticed under SMS control. Looking through the CA-1 options, I can't find an equivalent of SMS's 'retain days only backup' option. Is there a similar feature in CA-1? Thanks, Kees. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
