Thanks Dennis and others who have replied. I do use the audit files for links to minidisks but I saw no reference to SFS access. Thanks for the tip on CPIGNORE DIRLINK.
I was hoping the SFS did keep this information internally but maybe not. I just downloaded the SFSTOOLS but I'm not sure there is anything there to assist me. I really like the SFSULIST tool. Thanks again Kris for all your contributions to the VM download page. Bruce. I was not able to find the DIRLIST stage at Marist site. Would you have the URL for their downloads. Thanks again all for your thoughts on this subject. Hans From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, Dennis L Sent: October 8, 2008 3:18 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SFS files last accessed or updated Hans, For SFS, take a look at the ALLDATES option of LISTFILE. You're correct that there's no date of last access for minidisk files. You could scan your VM:Secure audit files to look for links to the minidisk. That won't tell you what files were accessed, but it will tell you that someone is either using the minidisk or has an old link in their PROFILE EXEC. We scan our audit files every day, and keep a link history that shows requester, target, month, and year. That summary data is kept for a year. The link history for our largest system takes just over 5 cylinders. If you set up something like that, you could initially populate it with whatever audit information you keep, then update it daily going forward. Once you decide what can be removed, if it's entire userids I recommend placing them on hold for at least a month before deleting them. Hold will prevent anyone from linking the minidisk. If you have VM:Secure set up to manage SFS, it will also disable the filespaces. If someone then discovers that they can't access something they need, it's trivial to reactivate the userid. If you decide to remove individual minidisks, create rules preventing anyone from linking. Make sure you check for directory links if you have CPIGNORE DIRLINK in VMXRPI CONFIG. You can manually disable filespaces, but not individual directories. Leave the rules or disable in place for awhile before you actually delete the resource. Dennis O'Brien We are Borg of America. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. _____ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hans Rempel Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 11:31 To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] SFS files last accessed or updated We are starting a major cleanup of old very old userids so I wish to see if I can review SFS directory entries to see when they were last referenced. We have VMSECURE installed and we know when the userid was last accessed but we do not know if the data is being accessed by other userids. For mdisks I'm using system centre utilities VMRMUA to show date last time file was updated since I believe that is the best we can do with a mdisk. Hans Rempel
