Erika, Simon
Thank you for coming back on this.
Up until the time of raising this thread, I was working with
RETENTIONMETHOD(EXPDT) specified, and getting the results I described.
Having sent my email, I moved on to RETENTIONMETHOD(VRSEL), but that didn't
help a lot - the EXPDT specified on the DD
A good source of information on the different retention method options in RMM
is the DFSMSrmm Primer:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg245983.html?Open ... this IBM Redbook
provides a highlight of the different functions within RMM including the
different retention methods that can be use
Hi Sean,
Have you created VRS definitions? These are used to control retention, based on
a variety of factors, such as whether the dataset is catalogued. EDGRMMxx is
more to do with system options and VLPOOL defs where I guess you'd set
EXPDTCHECK(N) to rely on RMM volume status to govern scrat
