One trap I fell into was the backup. If a dataset is not backed up, DFhsm won't delete it, even if it's expired. * * *George Rodriguez* *Specialist II - IT Solutions* *Application Support / Quality Assurance* *PX - 47652* *(561) 357-7652 (office)* *(561) 707-3496 (mobile)* *School District of Palm Beach County* *3348 Forest Hill Blvd.* *Room B-251* *West Palm Beach, FL. 33406-5869* *Florida's Only A-Rated Urban District For Eight Consecutive Years*
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Hervey Martinez < hervey.marti...@custserv.com> wrote: > Normally, the expired datasets are cleaned up during HSM's Primary & > Secondary Space management. What time do these run in your shop? > > Regards, > > Hervey > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Uriel Carrasquilla > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 1:25 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: DFSMSHSM is a not deleting expired datasets > > I listed three high level qualifiers (HLQ) and found 27,000 datasets that > were catalogued, some of them on disk, some of them on HSM (ML-1 or ML2) > and some other on tapes (TMS). > > Found that TMS is doing its job and expired datasets were gone. > > With thos dasets on DASD and under HSM (migrated), found the MGT-CLASS and > calculated when they were supposed to be expired (either from last > reference or days since creation). Talked to my business users and > confirmed that the datasets are supposed to be gone. > > What I found is that somehow from around 1998, nothing ever got delete > again (we have been running MVS/zOS for the last 40 years). > > The sad story, it seems that 21,000 datasets should be removed. > > I suspect that I will find the same story with my other 100 HLQ or so for > my applications. > > Is there such a thing as a parameter in DFSMSHSM that is supposed to do > the actual delete? > > Is this the normal way that zOS operates, in which case, why bother > writing ACL rules for SMS? > > What is your experience at your shop? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- *Accredited District Since 2008; Re-certification - January 2013* Home of Florida's first LEED Gold Certified School Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in writing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
