How do I setup an DFRMM Vault with VRS

Here's my problem. Customer has a specific set of tape volsers that he backups data on Sunday. On Monday he gets a pull list (currently from CA1) of those tape to put in a box and shipped off somewhere. After 35 days they return back home where they are expired. So I figured I'd create a LOCDEF

How FTP server assigns DCB attributes

I've been using MVS FTP for the longest time. I've encountered this problem but it never presented much of a problem until I had a problem with someone. Our company accepts SMF data that's been compressed via TRSMAIN (LRECL=1024,RECFM=FB). I wrote SMS routines such that if a user signs in using

Re: Question about ML2 expired datasets

SETSYS EXPIREDDATASETS(SCRATCH) SMS managed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Question about ML2 expired datasets

Tapes are virtual, z/OS 1.11 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Question about ML2 expired datasets

My impression is that HSM migrated the dataset from disk to tape and recataloged it to MIGRAT. HSM decided at some point to remove the entry where the dataset was on the tape. Why shouldn't HSM uncatalog it. He (DFHSM) is responsible for knowing where on a tape a dataset is not Tape Mgmt

Question about ML2 expired datasets

Scenario is quite simple. Datasets have been migrated to ML2 tape. They expired so DFHSM marked the tape files deleted yet the catalogue entries still exit. For some reason DFHSM is not uncataloging the datasets from master catalogue during any space management cycles

Error or Journal Dataset

I just got this error on a multi system shared DFHSM database. I can't anything recent and since the disk drives are new technology DS8 type I doubt there's a hardware error. The complete message is below. Any help would be appreciated and no we can't call IBM, it's z/OS 1.11 and they'd

How does DFHSM determine what datasets to migrate

I have DFHSM running on z/OS 1.11. It migrates certain SMS managed volumes when they hit a certain percent full and keep migrating until a lower threshhold is hit. My question is this. What order does it dump datasets? Does it start in the vtoc and go in sequential order? The customer seems to

Re: EMC 6000 Virtual Tape Drive

The client I work for got this thing for nothing so therefore since they're NOT a paying customer no userid/password. Nice huh? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

EMC 6000 Virtual Tape Drive

Does anyone out there have ANY experience with the EMC DLm6000 virtual tape server. I am working for a MAJOR software developer who got one of these for free. They provided almost NO documentation. What little doc I have only peripherally talks about SMS routines, RMM, and how to run

Adding SCRATCH tapes to DFRMM

I am going batsh*t crazy trying to add tapes to the RMM scratch tape list. I use the panel to add a scratch tape and it shows in INIT status. I can't change it to scratch status cause the panels work against me. Is there a STRAIGHFORWARD way to just add VOLSERS that are immediately ready to be

DFHSMDUMPCYCLE question

I hope someone out there knows the answer. I would like to take a full volume dump of a DASD volume on Monday and save it for one week. That much I can figure out with a DUMPCYCLE statement. My question is..is it possible for DFHSM to detect the first Monday in a month and instead of using a