Esmie, CA-Disk can be setup to honor the management class attributes or ignore them by setting a parameter in SYSPARMS parmlib member. Since the DSL gave us everything we needed to manage our datasets, we chose to ignore the management class in our shop but we still assign management class in case we ever decide to switch to DFHSM.
As long as the dasd in the storage group is not shared with any other lpar (system) that has DFHSM running and you do not run the archive command against the volumes in the storage group, management class is of no consequence. Not setting the management class will result in the dataset getting the default management class specified in you sms configuration. This could be a big clean up effort if you ever decided to switch to DFHSM or have CA-Disk use the management class attributes to manage the datasets in the storage group. Regards, John >Michael, > >Thank you. No, there is no plans to have DFHSM in this partition. The client >is satisfied with CA-ALLOCATE/CA-DISK. > >Thanks. > >> >>From: Michael Wickman <[email protected]> >>Subject: Re: SMS QUESTION >>To: [email protected] >>Received: Saturday, May 22, 2010, 4:42 AM >> >> >>You might want to consider the management class activity if there is a >>possibility the data/application could move to a lpar with DFHSM. If that's >>>>unlikely, then it's not necessary. >> >> >> >>Mike Wickman >> NOTICE: The information contained in this electronic mail transmission is intended by Convergys Corporation for the use of the named individual or entity to which it is directed and may contain information that is privileged or otherwise confidential. If you have received this electronic mail transmission in error, please delete it from your system without copying or forwarding it, and notify the sender of the error by reply email or by telephone (collect), so that the sender's address records can be corrected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
