RMM was designed around the assumption that tape datasets would be cataloged or else scratched. When we converted to it many years ago, we had to deal with a wholly different business practice: keep tape data sets, including 'GDG members', more or less forever. In the early days we had to install exit code to achieve the desired result. Today I believe that it can be done purely with parm values (I'm not an RMM guy). The important thing in a conversion is to make sure that tape handling is consistent across products, whatever that takes.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Conley Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 9:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: RMM question On 2/13/2018 9:24 AM, Tony Thigpen wrote: > Thanks Tom. > > Yes, I did mean VRS. > > No, IBM did not do the conversion. > > The output shows: > Exit status: > EDGUX100 = NONE > > Are you suggesting that I not use EDGUX100, but instead use: > RMM ADDVRS DSNAME(’**’) WHILECATALOG > > Will this affect all existing volumes? Is there a way to see the > effect without accidentally messing everything up? > > Tony Thigpen > Tony, I'm not sure how RMM will interpret 99000 without EDGUX100. I've always implemented at least the default EDGUX100 and UXTABLE. Is there a retention date listed in the volume record? About that '**' VRS, that will essentially make WHILECATALOG the default retention for everything, but then you will also have the overhead of VRSEL processing for everything. There are better ways to set that up. I would recommend that with your current setup, you create a VRS for the GDG's that you want to be WHILECATALOG controlled. You can run VRSEL with the VERIFY option to see the effects without actually doing anything. Please contact me offline if you'd like to discuss other options. Regards, Tom Conley ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
