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DFSMS HSM

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Add DFSMShsm RECYCLE for Cloud Objects

An enhancement to DFSMShsm RECYCLE to consolidate containers with a few objects to the "active" container or a specific container for consolidated objects. DFSMShsm creates cloud containers to store objects using the default syntax of SYSARC.<H...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

Allow DFSMSHSM to provide Immutable option during bucket creation

We are using IBM Transparent Cloud Tiering and HSM to migrate data to the cloud. We have been questioned by our auditors if the data stored to the cloud is immutable. They want verification that once the data is written to the cloud, it cannot be ...
almost 2 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

DFSMSHSM - remove reliance on ML1 for VTOC backups

We are no longer using migration level 1 for migrated data so we want to remove all ML1 volumes, however these are still required for VTOC backups. We do not see a need for VTOC backups as we would never use them for recovery but there does not ap...
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

Protect HSM expiration functions in IPL date error situation

We had a recent experience where one of our systems was IPL'ed to a future date. Unfortunately, RMM and HSM recycle processing ran during this time resulting in data being deleted prior to the true expiration date. We are able to change the RMM IP...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

Allow DFHSM to Migrate bad files with 0 exts

We have come across bad dsns(meaning files that have no lrecl, blocksize, 0 extents and/or are empty).DFHSM will bypass these types of files due to it having 0 extents. What is happening is even though they are still being cataloged. With these fi...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

Need BYPASSACS option for Migrate Volume(xxxxxx) Move

When using the DFSMShsm new function to do MIGRATE VOLUME(xxxxxx) MOVE, we need a possibility to bypass ACS routines so that manually or JCL-assigned SMS-classes are retained for datasets on selected volumes. The parameter BYPASSACS could be added...
almost 9 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 3 Future consideration

Allow HSM Recycle of tape to disk

We have HSM backup data on tape, and we would like to move this to disk instead. We have implemented autobackup to disk, but even after several months there is still tape media that contains valid backup versions. We need the ability to recycle th...
almost 10 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 1 Future consideration

Monitor string usage

As described in PMR we had an issue after dynamic strings added.We had no idea we were close to limit and we are not aware how often this happens.We suggest to add monitoring for the dynamic string as described in Use Case.
about 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS HSM 0 Future consideration

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