Colleen, Not a problem. I followed that rabbit earlier which is how I found the page in the manual that explained the use of **none** in the expiration date.
Here is the mgmt class def'n. Hopefully line wrap won't mess it up too bad. LINE MGMTCLAS EXPIRE EXPIRE RET PARTIAL OPERATOR NAME NON-USAGE DATE/DAYS LIMIT RELEASE ---(1)---- --(2)--- ---(3)--- ---(4)---- --(5)-- ----(6)---- MCINTUAT 5 NOLIMIT NOLIMIT CONDITIONAL PRIMARY LEVEL 1 CMD/AUTO # GDG ON ROLLED-OFF BACKUP DAYS DAYS MIGRATE PRIMARY GDS ACTION FREQUENCY ---(7)-- --(8)-- --(9)--- --(10)-- ---(11)--- --(12)--- 10 35 BOTH --- ------- 0 # BACKUPS # BACKUPS RETAIN DAYS RETAIN DAYS (DS EXISTS) (DS DELETED) ONLY BACKUP EXTRA BACKUPS ---(13)---- ----(14)---- ---(15)---- ----(16)----- 3 1 2 1 ADM/USER AUTO LAST MOD LAST DATE LAST TIME BACKUP BACKUP USERID MODIFIED MODIFIED --(17)-- -(18)- --(19)-- ---(20)--- --(21)--- BOTH YES RRP 2009/08/05 11:49 Fields 22-38 are all blank. BACKUP COPY ABACKUP COPY TECHNIQUE TECHNIQUE --------(39)-------- --------(40)-------- STANDARD STANDARD -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Colleen Gordon Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 4:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: DFSMS and deleting expired data sets by management class Hi Rex, Yes, you're right. Sorry about that. Can you cut and paste the entire management class definition? Backup shouldn't have anything to do with it unless you have backup turned on in the management class. Colleen Gordon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html