On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 10:52:41 -0600, Glenn Wilcock wrote: > >I looked and didn't see any Patches for skipping empty data sets. > >HSM treats these as normal since both migration and expiration can depend on >the existence of a valid backup copy. For this reason, HSM recently added >support for data sets with an undefined data set org (OA52304), since some >clients reported that a large number of these data sets were consuming a large >amount of primary storage and HSM was not able to process them. > I vaguely recall that long ago, perhaps when HSM was very new, it didn't, perhaps couldn't deal with empty data sets, perhaps empty PDSes.
Perhaps an explicit HMIGRATE command failed on an empty data set. I considered this a defect, attributable to the design's ignoring a boundary condition. To my taste, too many IBM products fail to handle the low-end boundary condition properly, and are getting worse. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
