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Status Delivered
Workspace z/OS
Categories DFSMS RMM
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 20, 2018

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RMM should surface reason volumes are not returned to scratch

Technote Reference #: S1000836 currently documents the process one needs to go through when attempting to determine why a particular logical volume was not returned to scratch during the last housekeeping run. Just going through those steps for a single logical volume is very time consuming and not very scalable for a larger number of volumes.

RMM should provide a way to surface the reason that a logical volume isn't eligible to be returned to scratch at any point in time. We should be able to determine if any single volume or a range of volume will not be scratched during the previous housekeeping run and why they are being kept. This reason should include which dataset on the volume is preventing the volume from going scratch.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Oct 4, 2023
    This idea has been delivered in z/OS 3.1, which was made generally available 9/29/2023.
  • Guest
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    |     Jan 14, 2019

    .We agree that it is very important to make it easier to understand what prevents a volume from being returned to scratch. We are investigating a number of different approaches, which may include adding a new field to the LISTVOLUME subcommand output, adding new messages to RMM housekeeping output, and making improvements to the RMM ISPF dialogs.

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