-----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
> Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R.
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 12:50 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: DFSMS and deleting expired datasets by management class
>
> I've got just the opposite thought. I would probably be "disturbed"
if
> a dataset that I wanted to delete wouldn't go because it doesn't have
a
> backup. I'm thinking of the situation where, for example, at my site
> we
> use a specific naming convention for SMS-managed datasets that are
> "temporary" in that they are only used for a job or a few jobs then
are
> deleted. They aren't "permanent" datasets that have to hang around
for
> days or longer. We keep them around for restarts and reruns, but at
> the
> end of their needed time in the batch cycle, they are deleted. It
> would
> cause misery to revamp our batch stream to change it to accommodate
the
> idea that these short-term datasets couldn't be deleted until they
have
> been backed up.
>
> "I told you to delete, now go away already!!!" :-)
I should be quiet until I think and look. I have just such a MGMTCLAS:
LINE MGMTCLAS EXPIRE EXPIRE RET PARTIAL PRIMARY
LEVEL 1 CMD/AUTO # GDG ON ROLLED-OFF BACKUP
OPERATOR NAME NON-USAGE DATE/DAYS LIMIT RELEASE DAYS
DAYS MIGRATE PRIMARY GDS ACTION FREQUENCY
---(1)---- --(2)--- ---(3)--- ---(4)---- --(5)-- ----(6)----
---(7)-- --(8)-- --(9)--- --(10)-- ---(11)--- --(12)---
MCTEMP NOLIMIT 5 0 YES
2 2 BOTH --- EXPIRE 0
MCWEEK 7 7 0 YES
3 7 BOTH --- EXPIRE 1
LINE MGMTCLAS # BACKUPS # BACKUPS RETAIN DAYS RETAIN DAYS
ADM/USER AUTO BACKUP COPY LAST MOD
OPERATOR NAME (DS EXISTS) (DS DELETED) ONLY BACKUP EXTRA
BACKUPS BACKUP BACKUP TECHNIQUE USERID
---(1)---- --(2)--- ---(13)---- ----(14)---- ---(15)----
----(16)----- --(17)-- -(18)- --------(39)-------- --(19)--
MCTEMP 1 0 -------
------- NONE NO STANDARD GIBNEY
MCWEEK 2 1 10
1 BOTH YES STANDARD GIBNEY
MCTEMP works just fine so does the MCWEEK which I do backup. Sorry
about the ugly wrap.
Dave Gibney
Information Technology Services
Washington State University
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