Hello Hervey,
I work for CA Technologies, and perform QA for CA Allocate. I also was a
customer of its predecessors (VAM/VSAM and VAM/DS) in the late 1980s. As a
systems programmer I was able get my employer at the time to bring the products
in and start using them.
CA Allocate basically lets the Storage Administrator override JCL or dynamic
allocations by the customer. You write an Allocation Selection Routine and
test values of certain variables, and then you can make overrides if the
environment exists. For example, you can look at a data set name and change
the SMS storage class.
When I was a customer, we were starting to implement pooling of DASD. Before
that, departments owned volumes and programmers had to request allocations on a
specific volser. I used it to override the allocation to the test pool or
the production pool.
Since that time, we have added support to extend data sets to add space, or to
reduce allocations to fit on fragmented volumes. There is also a quota feature
that allows you to warn or deny allocations to users that have exceeded their
space allotment.
For most of the time at CA, I have been working on CA Disk and CA Vantage, and
just started working with CA Allocate again earlier this year. There are other
members of this discussion board who have been using it on a more continuous
basis than I have so you can also pick up a lot of useful information from
others here, but I will help you with whatever you need, or go to the source to
find out.
Regards,
Bob Longabaugh
CA Technologies
Quality Assurance Architect
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Subject: CA-allocate
Anybody out there use or have converted to CA-Allocate? If so, can you share
your opinion on the product? I've been looking for reviews of the product and
just don't seem to find anything.
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