Colleen and the others who responded to my request, Just as a wrap-up on this issue, it appears as though I needed to shut off the auto backup on these datasets before they would go away. I turned off the auto backup and my test datasets were deleted when they expired. I ran a couple more tests to verify this as well.
Thanks everybody for your help and input on this. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 4:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: DFSMS and deleting expired data sets by management class Colleen, I'll try turning backup off and see if they go away tonight. Just for my own knowledge, with the number of datasets deleted set to 1, I have to have a backup before it will allow expiration? I was under the impression that this was more of a maximum number of backups to keep for a deleted dataset. IOW, in this case, I have # backups of deleted set to 1, # of backups of active dataset set to 3, and retain days only backup set to 2. Given these numbers I thought the system would keep up to 3 backups of primary datasets, and when the primary gets deleted, it would also delete any backups I have greater than one, if they exist, and then after 2 days delete the last backup. I didn't think it required a backup before deleting the primary. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Colleen Gordon Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 4:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: DFSMS and deleting expired data sets by managment class Hi Rex, You have auto backup turned on and you have # of data sets data set deleted set to 1. Turn backup off and they'll expire or you'll need to use the patch you found. If you are only wanting to keep them for 5 days after last reference then I'm guessing that a backup isn't necessary. 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
