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    Maximum same GDG parallel recall

    In an GDG Extended environment, concurrent recall of too many (up to 999) GDSs may cause issues, the main ones being:1) Flood HSM recall queue with too many recalls, which can be:Too fast: With BATCH_RCLMIGDS(PARALLEL) in ALLOCxx all 999 recalls w...
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

    HSM FLB support of archive function

    The current set of available functions does not allow to 'archive' a file
    about 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Future consideration

    Add a possibility to limit the number of parallel tasks to prevent S878 ABENDing HSM STC

    During recover of over 1000 datasets we increased the maximum recover tasks step by step to 12. Once we reached 12 HSM STC itself ABENDed because of a S878 because of a storage constraint below the line. This is documented as works-as-designed: ht...
    over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

    HSM recycle integrate with BVIR when TS7700T is in place

    When recycle runs, sometimes when there is a huge cleanup or more tapes to be recycled, for environments that have TS7700T, HSM recycles tapes with its own criteria. Instead, if it can integrate BVIR data and perform the recycle, this helps in a f...
    5 months ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

    DFSMShsm full volume dump is still limited to 40 volumes

    During our HSM space management, we have defined one dump class, which runs once a week. At this dump class, we have included our large application development department volumes (EAVs with 1182006 Cylinders per Volume). During our last full volum...
    over 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

    Thin Provision Release from HSM for Mainframe

    Provide for thin provisioning space release when HSM does space management on zOS.
    almost 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

    HSM EXPIREBV to be part of Automated function

    In most of the clients I have worked, one thing I observed is they were missing to run EXPIREBV regularly. Few shops schedule them as batch jobs or run adhoc and when people change or with time, they tend to forget to look into it. Because of this...
    about 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

    Support to have DFSMShsm invoke DFSMSdss with ZCOMPRESS(PREFERRED) during ABACKUP processing

    DFSMSHSM has SETSYS ZCOMPRESS options to use zEDC compression during migration, backup and dump. But currently there is no SETSYS ZCOMPRESS option for ABACKUP
    about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 2 Future consideration

    Autobackup for HSM USS files

    This functionality to allow the USS files under a file system to be automatically backed when the autobackup for the SMS management class is setup.
    about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

    Add Compaction information to HSM FSR SMF records

    The SMF type 14/15 records normally contain the information about whether sequential data sets are compressed or not, and if they are, what type of compression as used. However, HSM uses DSS to process sequential data sets from Primary devices - D...
    over 6 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

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