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DFSMS RMM

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RMM Retention Method Expdt Abend handling

For Tapes that are using retention method VRSEL there is an abend handling routine that is used when a job abends and the dataset and tapes are cleaned up prior to the rerun of the job. However with tapes using retention method EXPDT there is no s...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

Catalog Failures during Housekeeping should set a rc4

During EDGHSKP EXPROC processing when a call to uncatalog data sets on an expiring tape fails RMM issues message EDG2158I to the RMM STC log but continues processing without setting any warnings in the output of the Housekeeping job itself or in t...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

EDGJNSCR in SYS1.SAMPLIB changes required

There are several errors in the EDGJNSCR samplib member. We ship several sample reporting jobs in SYS1.SAMPLIB, that are based on non-extended records but the job itself is does not specify this in its description. We should update the sample job ...
almost 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

DFRMM ABENDU0006: handling I/O errors to the CDS

RMM issues an ABENDU0006 to indicate that a problem was encountered when trying to perform I/O to the RMM control data set. In some cases this abend is not needed and could be handled in a less disruptive way that does not require customer interve...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

DFSMSrmm does not use UNIT specified in ISPF's ISPF Configuration Utility, but uses SYSALLDA specified in CLIST.

When I try to use the DFSMSrmm "G (Report Generation)" feature, SYS1.SEDGEXE1 (EDGRGREP) runs and userid.REPORT.LIB / userid.REPORT.JCL is allocated.The allocation parameter in SYS1.SEDGEXE1 (EDGRGREP) specifies UNIT (SYSALLDA), so it will try to ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

Prioritization of mount tasks in DFRMM.

Prioritization of mount tasks in DFRMM. RMM should give mount tasks a higher priority then other tasks like catalog request tasks.In the moment there is no prioritization of tasks and all tasks are queued.RMM should interrupted other tasks and ful...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

Updating SYS1.SAMPLIB(EDGJRECV) to not require lost tape rack number or create new sample member to recover virtual volume

Currently, the EDGJRECV sample for recovering lost tape volume records in RMM CDS requires rack number in the IN1 DD CARD, which is not possible for virtual/logical volumes, so the sample cannot be used to recover lost virtual tape volume records.
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

RMM catsynch verify error listing

PGM=EDGHSKP,PARM='CATSYNCH,VERIFY' takes a SVC dump.Unfortunately, you have to find out why!The cause seem to be orphaned "rename in Progress" data sets.RMM message data set contains Information:EDG2237E CATALOG SEARCH INTERFACE REQUEST FAILED RET...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Planned for future release

DFSMSrmm CDS/Journal Mirroring support

DFSMSrmm needs to automatically resolve CDS consistency point from journal when recovering from unplanned DR event. Consistency point of the hardware produced an event to RMM where the Journal had been updated but the CDS had not. At startup today...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

RMM should not submit volume ejects when OAM is down or restarting

We were in the process of ejecting several hundred thousand VTS logical volumes on a system that is in the process of being decommissioned when we started getting some errors (CBR3717I & CBR3650I). In determining root cause we found out that a...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration