How often do you run EXPIREBV? > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Michael Bieganski > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 10:34 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: ISMF /SMS questions - Why aren't these datasets whacked? > > Hi, > We are trying to lasso the extreme growth/size that our hsm has grown > to in the last 2 years. > The a large majority of our tapes (virtual) seem to tied to hsm > backups. > One big side-issue is that the lions share of our sms management > classes all specify Expire-Non-Usage of Nolimit and also Expire > Date/Days also of Nolimit....so basically, we still have datasets > created during the Reagan administration. > I was toying with trying to get buy-in from our management to at least > allow some managment classes to be changed from say, Nolimit to say > Expire-Non-Usage of 730 or whatever, so that 1) old-moldy datasets go > away and 2) thus their hsm backups would also go away after the Retain- > Days ran out. > and that way can start shaving off some of our hsm tapes that way > > Nosing around in ISMF, I pulled up a management class, named "standtso" > that has Expire-Non-Usage of 550 and Expire-Days of Nolimit. So, my > interpretation of that is that if any dataset with the management class > of standtso, would expire, and thus be deleted if not opened in the > last 550 days. > > The questions I have arise that I see quite a number of standtso > datasets with "Last Referenced Date" in the 1990's !? > Some are not even hsm-migrated. > Shouldn't any and all datasets that have a Last-Referenced-Date before > 2011 be gone due to this Expire-Non-Usage of 550? > > And a couple side-bar questions....in ISMF option 1 Datasets. It seems > like if I enter *.** for dataset name, it tacks my userid as the HLQ of > the resulting list. > > If I wanted all datasets that are in management class "standard". I > can page down and type criteria Management class ame eq > standard........but how do I get ALL such datasets without having to do > something like single-quoted > dataset name 'A.**' then 'B.**' then 'C.**' etc. If I type single > quoted '*.**' it wants a catalog name > Is the only way to specify all datasets, ie single-quoted '*.**' is to > do so one catalog name at a time? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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