"William Bishop" <bill.bis...@tema.toyota.com> wrote in message news:<ofadc89ed9.853d8cdc-on852575d1.005318e6-852575d1.00535...@tema.toy ota.com>... > I have a request. I am working to try and get management to let me clean > up some old tapes in preparation for a potential library replacement and > they would like to know what other practices are. > > What do other sites do for mainframe tape data retention for > files created either prior to a site implementing SMS policies for > data retention or for sites that do not use SMS policies to manage their > default tape data retention? > > This would be more directed towards how long a file is kept after > creation and would override default catalog control, but not EXPDT > retentions. > > Thanks > > Bill Bishop >
All our tapes have a retention period assigned by the Tape Management System. Tapes created without an entry in the RDS are kept for 3 weeks. The same applies to most Production datasets. User datasets are kept until the user deletes them. I am planning to make tapes SMS managed and make them more similar to disk datasets, i.e. provide an expiration date where possible and keep the others until they are uncataloged. We have the SMS policy that every dataset should be cataloged, extended to all our datasets along time ago. Kees. ********************************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
