Retention period of physical sequential file on tape/disk

alokagarwaljgd · New User Joined: 02 Jun 2006 Posts: 16

Hi,

Can any body tell me the process/way to find the retention period of any physical sequential file that exists on 1) tape and 2) disk.

I require this because I need to change the retention period of a file from 400 to 1825. After doing this change I want to test/review/confirm whether the change in the retention period has actually taken place.

Any help in this regard is highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Alok

expat · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:25 pm Post subject:

Go talk to your storage people, they usually control data retention.

How they do it is rather site specific and also depends on the ILM and TMS products installed at your shop.

Anuj D. · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 1:15 pm Post subject:

And if you are intrested to know what is the current Management Class, go to 3.4 & get Data Set Information using "S" or "I".

Gousiya Mulla · New User Joined: 02 Jun 2008 Posts: 23 Location: bangalore

Hi ,

Your Storage management only can help for this .
I think to do this in test you need to change RMM , and you need access to do this . Try with them .

expat · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:53 pm Post subject:

Gousiya Mulla · New User Joined: 02 Jun 2008 Posts: 23 Location: bangalore

Terry Heinze · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:45 pm Post subject:

The shops I've worked at that use CA-1 allow programmers to inquire but not update TMC records. As suggested, see your storage people.