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DFSMS RMM

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Create a report to show the unused defaults table entries

If a customer has a large number of VRS definitions he can use the VRSEL report to identify "Unused VRS Definitions" at the end of the report. I have successfully converted a customer with approximate 13.0000 RDS definitions to approximate 13.000 ...
26 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

Show the correct SCRATCH volume count in ISMF and DFSMSrmm

Today we have a problem to show the SCRATCH volume count in the ISMF panel, because it does not matched the real available scratch volume count in the IBM VTS library manager data base. The problem is the "Delete Expired Volume Data setting". Is t...
about 1 year ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

Support DFSMSrmm Search Owner

Today in DFSMSrmm there is the ability to search for all records except for owner records. In an environment using DFSMSrmm since years there are a lot of obsolete owner records, but a customer/user is not able to find out this records. For every ...
27 days ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Under review

Z/OS RMM RM(EXPDT) Catalog Control function for expdt=99000.

Right now with retention method expdt if a the user uses expdt=99000 in their jcl the expiration date is set to 12/31/1999. With whilecatalog(on) for a management class we want to use for catalog control, if all the datasets on the tape(s) are unc...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 2 Planned for future release

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...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Planned for future release

Uncatalog and Forceexpire incomplete residual datasets when a multivol-multidataset chain is broken by HSKP in RETAINBY(VOL) environment

If in a tape chain are present dataset with different retain date due to different VRS, and parmlib option is RETAINBY(VOL), it is possible to have chunks of an expired dataset in the first or last position of the retained tape, because PREVVOL or...
over 1 year 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...
about 4 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Planned for future release

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 ...
over 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration

DFRMM : TSO CMD for large number of tapes

Last year I had update more then 150.000 volumes to set HOLD=YES.I could do this only with the TSO RMM Command CV [volid] HOLD.It was very slowly (50.000. volumes in 1h40min :-( ) I think it will be nice if we have a TSO RMM Command with the optio...
over 8 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 1 Future consideration

DFSMSrmm CDS & RLS

VSAM Record Level Sharing support for RMM CDS. The RMM CDS is a KSDS VSAM file that could see significant processing efficiencies using RLS.
about 3 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS RMM 0 Future consideration