Ooops ... I think I meant we restricted STORGRP (not STORCLAS). be seeing you ... Don
Don Melton, Sr. Consultant, Vatic Technologies Ltd "Don Melton" <numberfiveplus...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:<78F313C333AA482DAFD8A71679B2F846@vtdskntw5100003>... > "Lizette Koehler" <stars...@mindspring.com> wrote in message > news:<01de01cd591f$8b52a580$a1f7f080$@mindspring.com>... > > I have a friend who has a shop that is non SMS. I am trying to provide a > simple check list on how to convert to SMS managed storage. > > > > If anyone has suggestions on best practices for a conversion - please let > me know. > > > > I have one idea of how to do, but others with more experience might have a > more elegant approach. > > > > My concept is to create some empty SMS Pools. Change/establish ACS > routines (using the SAMPLE IBM provides) and slowly take one HLQ after > another. Then when comfortable with the process and ACS/HSM processes work, > go for the big bang. Yes - This is a high level view of what I would do. > So steps are missing. ? > > > > If there are better ideas, I thank you for the guidance. > > > > > > Lizette Koehler > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > These comments may seem a bit "radical", but they worked very well in the > implementation that I led. > > 1) During the SMS implementation we set things up so that general users > could specify SMS attributes (except for STORCLAS). The idea was to > decouple the dataset name (which hopefully describes content and function) > from the management attributes. It was a long time ago, but I seem to > recall using RACF to authorize users to specific subsets of data/management > classes. > > 2) I also took the opportunity to "refactor" the data management rules. I > worked with all of the "stakeholders" to review current storage management > practices (e.g., backup retention, space allocation etc.) and try to > rationalize and reduce them to a small(er) set of SMS constructs. > > 3) Finally I seem to recall that the order of conversion was something like: > temporary datasets, TSO user datasets, general application datasets, > database datasets, other datasets. > > be seeing you ... Don > > Don Melton, Sr. Consultant, Vatic Technologies Ltd > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
