Dave, You got a lot of suggestions. Let me toss another one at you. We approach this problem slightly different. We have a separate storage group we use as a spill group. In our SMS routines we allocate the spill storage group behind several of the others so it is kind of a shared group. If one of the production groups goes too high, SMS will allocate space on the spill group to get the needed storage. The next day we get notified that the spill group has data on it and we can then move the data to the normal production group and clean up the spill group. If it becomes a habit for a storage group to be using the spill space we know it is time to increase the space in the production group.
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dave Jousma Sent: Thursday, November 4, 2021 6:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] automated SMS Storage pool management All, I'm sure someone has solved this. I'm now managing DASD management at my shop. One thing that bothers me is my guys getting off-shift calls because some active storage pools fall below a % threshold of freespace. We arent skimpy on provisioning, but dont want to over-provision either. We are IBM system automation shop, and I asked IBM if there was any "out-of-the-box" automation for SMS we could start with and tailor to our needs. Nothing. Not looking to fully automate storage pool management, but something along the lines of having some number of volumes in DISNEW status, that could be enabled via automation - saving that middle of the night call-out, but to follow-up on next business day. Anyone doing anything like this, case to share? Thanks in advance, Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
