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superk
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Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 4652 Location: Raleigh, NC, USA
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I have a GDG base defined with LIMIT=10,SCRATCH, and NOEMPTY.
On frequent occasions, I'll find more than 10 cataloged datasets as part of the Generation Data Group. A LISTCAT of the entries shows them to be in a ROLLED-OFF status.
The job that creates these entries is cyclical, and I'd like to keep the last 10 generations for diagnostics when necessary.
I asked our Storage guru about this. His response was:
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The status of the dataset says it rolled off.
You may delete it.
There are many reasons a dataset may appear that it did not roll out of the catalog. The most common is a restore was performed and did not get sphere’d it back into the GDG.
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I don't want to delete them. I don't want to have to monitor for this situation. There are many different GDG's on different LPAR's where this is happening. Does this situation seem normal? |
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stodolas
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Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 632 Location: Wisconsin
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I've seen files in that status. I have found it to be more like a "marked for rolloff". So when the storage mgmt agent thing comes through it knows which to delete because they are outside the 10 limit. |
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gcicchet
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Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 1702 Location: Australia
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I've seen this happen when the dataset is created with a retention period or expiry date which prevents it from being deleted.
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superk
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Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 4652 Location: Raleigh, NC, USA
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So, I take it from the responses that this is to be considered a normal situation?
I can put together a job to go out and LISTCAT the bases and look for the "ROLLED-OFF" datasets and delete them. It just seems sorta dumb to do something that I thought SMS was supposed to handle automatically. |
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expat
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Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 8797 Location: Welsh Wales
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The only time that I've encountered this is when people have done a RECOVER from HSM, or Dfdss.
The only thing that I can think of is one of the settings in the MGMTCLAS in SMS that isn't set to EXPIRE when a GDG rolls off.
Might be worth talking to the storage bods. |
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