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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories DFSMS SMS
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 24, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

add the substr function into ACS routines to simply SMS management for complex environment

I have been working with a customer who wants to obtain the subsystem ID for more generic filtlists and storage group assignments.

Something like

filtlist XXXSAP   INCLUDE(DSN%%%U.**,                                  
                              'ICF.DRPLEX.%%%SAP')                        
                       EXCLUDE(DSN%%%%%.ARCHLOG1.**,                        
                               DSN%%%%%.ARCHLOG2.**,                        
                               DSN%%%%%.LOGCOPY%.DS*.**,                    
                               DSN%%%%%.DS%.BSDS0%)                          

WHEN (&dsn eq &XXXSAP)  SET &storgrp = substr(&dsn(1),3,3)||'SAP'

This would basically mean we don’t need to update SMS anytime we create or remove subsystems.  

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
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    |     Dec 13, 2023

    What would happen if a new subsystem is introduced and there is no corresponding STORGRP already defined? The allocation would fail unless you had an OTHERWISE clause to send it elsewhere.

    So you must know presumably what all the potential subsystems might be and have STORGRP's defined ready for them in which case just have a WHEN statements set for each.

    Agree though that substringing would be useful at times.

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