Re: hsm questions

2019-03-14 Thread Richard Marchant
) / HI-A-RBA * 100 In the case above this will be (662077440 - 173260800) / 662077440 * 100 = 73.8 % *Potential Free Space (if reorganised)* The higher percentage free space figure will be: FREESPC / HI-A-RBA * 100 In the case above this will be 517779456 / 662077440 * 100 = 78.2 % Richard Marchant

Re: Changing the volser of an HSM ML1 volume

2020-07-12 Thread Richard Marchant
Gadi, I would advise you do the following so HSM knows what's where: HSEND ADDVOL newvolser UNIT(3390) MIGRATION(ML1 NODRAIN) HSEND ADDVOL oldvolser UNIT(3390) MIGRATION(DRAIN) HSEND FREEVOL MVOL(oldvolser) AGE(0) TARGETLEVEL(ML1) Once complete you can DELVOL the oldvolser. HTH Ri

Re: Changing the volser of an HSM ML1 volume

2020-07-13 Thread Richard Marchant
Gadi, HSM should move all the files. Richard Marchant Johannesburg On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 8:43 AM Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: > Thanks > Will HSM move the files already on the old volume, or do I have to do it > myself? > > Gadi > > -Original Message- > From: IBM M

Re: Changing the volser of an HSM ML1 volume

2020-07-13 Thread Richard Marchant
Gadi, FREEVOL should move these files if they are good. Check they are active files. Richard Marchant Johannesburg From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gadi Ben-Avi Sent: Monday, July 13, 2020 10:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re

Re: Changing the volser of an HSM ML1 volume

2020-07-13 Thread Richard Marchant
procedure. Then recall it as above. HTH Richard Marchant Johannesburg From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gadi Ben-Avi Sent: Monday, July 13, 2020 10:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Changing the volser of an HSM ML1 volume All of the

Re: Changing the volser of an HSM ML1 volume

2020-07-13 Thread Richard Marchant
Gadi, Try running the FREEVOL again and then post the DFHSM log of the FREEVOL output. Richard Marchant Johannesburg On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 12:19 PM Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: > Hi Again, > The VTOC records are newish. There are some from today and some from > earlier in the year. >

Re: Changing the volser of an HSM ML1 volume

2020-07-13 Thread Richard Marchant
Gadi, Please execute the following command: *HSEND AUDIT MEDCTL VOLUMES(ML1000) FIX* Richard Marchant Johannesburg On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 2:27 PM Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: > Hi Richard, > Enclosed is the output from the FREEVOL command. > This partition does not have any issues with H

Re: Changing the volser of an HSM ML1 volume

2020-07-13 Thread Richard Marchant
Gadi, Did you FIXCDS the "A" and "D" records of these files? Was the output good? Richard Marchant Johannesburg On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:02 PM Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: > I got a bunch of messages saying > /* ERR 141 ML1000 - SCRATCHED EMPTY DATA SET > HSM.VTOC.T01

Re: Alternative for VTL ?

2019-10-14 Thread Richard Marchant
Jake, Check *Secure Data Solution* by Secure Data Innovations AG Richard On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 8:04 AM Jake Anderson wrote: > Hi Group > > I am looking for alternative solution for IBM VTL. So far i have found > luminex, EMC DLM, Model9... > > Are there anyother virtual tape solution for ma

Re: How to delete strange files on dasd

2018-09-12 Thread Richard Marchant
Have you tried ISMF, Option 1, list the uncataloged datasets and issue DELETEs Richard Marchant Edcon Stores Ltd On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 1:51 PM Hilario Garcia wrote: > Hello dear colleagues, > > For unknown reasons I have a volume with the following content in the vtoc: > >

Re: DFHSM Migrate

2017-11-01 Thread Richard Marchant
Migration is LIMITED On Wed, 01 Nov 2017 at 17:19, Bill Johnson < 0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > F dfhsm,Q SETSYS > F DFSMSHSM,Q SETSYSARC0101I QUERY SETSYS COMMAND STARTING ON > HOST=1ARC0147I BUDENSITY=*, BUUNIT=3490, BU RECYCLE 948ARC0147I (CONT.) > PERCENTAGE=020%, M

Re: HSM question

2016-11-24 Thread Richard Marchant
Tony, When DFHSM does migration and backup by dataset (not an auto-function) it will not MARKFULL the tape. Make sure you users are not doing this. An HBACKUP or a HMIGRATE command should send the result to ML1 DASD unless ML2 is specified on the HMIGRATE command. There are settings in the mana

Re: HSM old tape cleanup

2016-12-14 Thread Richard Marchant
S or their associated records in the BCDS or MCDS depending whether they are backup or migration tapes. Richard Marchant Johannesburg On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 2:03 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote: > They are in both catalogs. I am not currently concerned with the CA-1 > catalog since CA-1 normally sc

Re: HSM followup question

2017-02-21 Thread Richard Marchant
) DAYS(0) [CONVERT] Richard Marchant RSA On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote: > I just ran the following: > > MIGRATE VOLUME(HDGAC0 MIGRATE(365)) ML2 > > I got the following: > > ARC0570I COMMAND MIGRATION FOR HDGAC6 VOLUME(S) TERMINATED, RC=25 REASON=0 &

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-08 Thread Richard Marchant
Jake, Minimum allocation for a file on DASD is one track. Richard -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jake anderson Sent: 08 August 2012 01:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Space Allocation In Bytes Hi, I

Re: DFSMSHSM is a not deleting expired datasets

2012-09-25 Thread Richard Marchant
particular volume(s). For non-SMS volumes (ADDVOLed with AUTOMIG turned on) and for SMS volumes the storage group containing the volumes must be defined with AM=Y. Richard Marchant -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: CBT File745 (File Formatter aka OS)

2012-09-26 Thread Richard Marchant
We could be the topside of the planet! Richard Marchant Johannesburg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Rusnak Sent: 26 September 2012 03:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: CBT File745 (File Formatter aka OS

Re: switching to new shared sms commds

2012-11-07 Thread Richard Marchant
Dennis, Make sure you allocate a new COMMDS do not try using an existing one. Richard Hello, I want to switch to new sms commds on current environment that has same commds shared by 3 lpars. I come from an older sms environment where each lpar had their own set of cds's so this is differe

Re: HMIGRATE in parallel

2013-09-25 Thread Richard Marchant
J.P. Another possibility, if you write the backups to a storage group reserved for backups, would be to use HSM's INTERVALMIGRATION option on the specific storage group. This option runs interval migration on the hour every hour except when PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT is running. This is done by

Re: DLm2100 and DD4500 Config for MF

2013-10-01 Thread Richard Marchant
Lizette, ML2 data does not dedupe well, 2 to 1 if you are very lucky. DataDomains are a very expensive option if the dedupe ratio is poor. Ask EMC if they have other disk options that can be placed behind their DLM boxes that just have normal compression and replication features, it should work

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - ARC0570I RC=25 REASON=0

2013-05-02 Thread Richard Marchant
John, If you are migrating to another primary volume use the command: MIGRATE VOLUME(SYC103 MIGRATE(5)) CONVERT(VOL001) Where VOL001 is another DFHSM managed volume If you are migrating to ML1 or ML2 you must specify them instead of the CONVERT keyword. Richard -Original Message- Fr

Re: Choosing a tape library

2013-06-10 Thread Richard Marchant
Gadi, In South Africa we have installed Luminex VTL / Data Domain solutions for mainframe customers and it works very well. The Data Domain is not mandatory and could be replaced with less expensive disk as Luminex now has replication and compression capabilities, this would make it a cheaper s

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - MIGRATE VOLUME PARMS

2013-06-28 Thread Richard Marchant
Esmie, There was quite a long thread about this very issue quite recently, please check the archives. Unfortunately there were no easy answers. Richard -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Thursday, June 2

Re: Missing HSM backups

2013-07-16 Thread Richard Marchant
David, Where are the two GDGs located? Are they on different SMS groups or different non-SMS volumes? If they are separated are you allowing HSM to perform autobackup on both entities? Richard -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Old usercatalogs with IMBED and REPLICATE

2013-07-16 Thread Richard Marchant
Before you install Z/OS 1.13 do you need to remove the IMBED and REPLICATE parameters from your old Usercatalogs or will they co-exist with Z/OS 1.13? We are currently running Z/OS 1.11 and a number of the Usercatalogs have the IMBED parameter with no obvious ill affect. Richard

Re: Missing HSM backups

2013-07-17 Thread Richard Marchant
ices T:(775)684-4328 | F: (775) 684‐4324 | E:dschle...@admin.nv.gov -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Marchant Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 12:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Missing HSM backups David,

Re: Question about ML2 expired datasets

2013-07-19 Thread Richard Marchant
Mike, Might be a silly question but does DFHSM have authority to update your master catalog? Richard -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Wojtukiewicz Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 1:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: EMC DLM Data Domain and z/OS

2013-08-30 Thread Richard Marchant
Lizette, One of the main selling points of the DataDomain is the Global Compression feature (data deduplication). This works well for multiple backups but not for archived data which ML2 data effectively is, so in your case using a DataDomain at the backend would be a very expensive option. L

Re: Example of ACS Environment of SPMGCLTR

2016-04-14 Thread Richard Marchant
Theo, Check out Glen Wilcock's 'What's new in DFHSM' March 2014. This was presented at SHARE in Anaheim in 2014. You can google it and download. There is a section called 'Storage Tiering' which goes into detail about SPMGCLTR (not SPGMCLTR) and the &A

Re: Example of ACS Environment of SPMGCLTR

2016-04-20 Thread Richard Marchant
TORCLAS) > WHEN ('EASYTIER') SET &STORGRP = 'EASYTIER' > WHEN ('SCSATA') SET &STORGRP = 'SGSATA' > OTHERWISE SET &STORGRP = &STORGRP >END > ELSE ... > > -Original Message- > From: IBM

Re: Example of ACS Environment of SPMGCLTR

2016-04-21 Thread Richard Marchant
llocated tracks . : 1 > > Storage class . . . : USRSCTR1Allocated extents . : 1 > > Volume serial . . . : UMGG13 > > Device type . . . . : 3390 > > Data class . . . . . : USERS > > Organization . . . : PS Current Utilization > > Rec

Re: Example of ACS Environment of SPMGCLTR

2016-04-21 Thread Richard Marchant
Volume serial . . . : UMGG13 > > Device type . . . . : 3390 > > Data class . . . . . : USERS > > Organization . . . : PS Current Utilization > > Record format . . . : FB Used tracks . . . . : 0 > > Record length . . . : 80

Re: SMS question

2012-06-26 Thread Richard Marchant
John, I would advise re-allocating the COMMDS file. The old COMMDS holds old conflicting infomation, you need to start with a new clean one. Richard From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] on behalf of John Norgauer [john.norga...