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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Change Tracker
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 29, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

Add more specific archiving policies or workflows

By creating archiving concepts for configuration items, a viable archiving policy is mandatory. Today you have to choose between retention days (x)or a specified number of copies to keep.

This forces the user to choose between two different types of configuration.

If you choose to keep the last 30 days, datasets which have very infrequent changes will archive probably all previous versions of a configuration member.

If you choose to keep the last 3 copies, datasets which get very frequent (i.e. 10 times a day) changes will archive probably very “young” versions of a configuration member.

What’s missing is a combination of both methods.

i.e. “Archive members which are older than 30 days but keep at lease 3 copies”.

The Number of days and copies is configurable. This would fit both use-cases.

There might be more rules to decide weather a backup is to be archived or to be kept as working copy. Also, the archiving process must be automatic and while change tracker is running. There must be no need to stop change tracker for running the archiving process.


Idea priority High

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