Review of SMS

The Background to IBM's Storage Management Subsystem

• The GUIDE Requirements

• Benefits

• Customer Acceptance

DFSMS/MVS

• The DFSMS/MVS Product

• Storage Management

SMS Methodology

SMS Solution Areas

• Space Management

• Performance Management

• Availability Management

• Device Installation Management

Logical Structure

• Management and Pooling

• SMS Automatic Class Selection

SMS Constructs

• Data Class

• Storage Class

• Management Class

• Storage Group

POOL Storage Group

DUMMY Storage Group

VIO Storage Group

• Automatic Class Selection (ACS) Routines

Execution Sequence

Support and Management with ISMF

Considerations for SMS

• SMS Supported Data Sets

• JCL Considerations

Parameter Changes

VSAM definition in JCL

Temporary VSAM

TSO/ISPF Changes

The SMS Environment

• An SMS Complex

• The Control Data sets

• SYS1.PARMLIB Members

• Planning and Preparation

SMS Implementation

Preparing the System

• Creating the SMS Control Data Sets

• Parmlib Members

• IGDDFPKG

• IEFSSNx

Changing ISMF Status

Creating the Constructs

• Base Configuration

System Defaults

SMS Use of Cache Structures

• Cache Structure Names

Systems and System Groups

• Data Class

• Storage Class

Millisecond Response Time and Data Set Allocation

• Management Class

Management Class Usage

Creating Storage Groups

• DASD

Defining the Storage Group

Storage Group Status

Adding Volumes

• VIO

• DUMMY

Other ISMF Operations

• LIST

• ISMF Line operators

COPY

LISTSYS

LISTVOL

SETCACHE

CONVERTV

COPY or DUMP

INITIALIZE

Automatic Class Selection

• Changes to the Allocation Process

• Flow of Control in A

ACS Routine Creation

• Coding

The ACS Language

• Variables

Read-Write Variables

Read-Only Variables

• Literals

• Numerics

• Masks

Simple Masks

Data Set Masks

• Comparison Operators

• Statements

General Rules

PROC, END, SET, IF, DO, EXIT, SELECT, FILTLIST, WRITE

Practical Statement Examples

Completing the ACS Routines

• Translation

• Validation

• Testing the ACS Routines

• ACS Object Information

• Deleting an ACS Object

ACS Exits

Starting SMS

Manually for the First Time

• Validating the Entire SCDS

• Activating the Configuration

Automatically Changing Configuration

• Considerations

Controlling SMS

SET SMS

• Examples

VARY SMS

Displaying SMS Information

• DISPLAY SMS

• Major Parameters

D SMS,ACTIVE/A

D SMS,CACHE

• DEVSERV SMS

Enhanced Function Support

Concurrent Copy

• Existing Backup/Copy Methodologies

• Requirements

• Operation

• Terminology

• Scope

• SMS Definitions

• Implementation and Usage

• COPY and DUMP Considerations

• DFSMSdss use of Utilities

• Mutually Exclusive Parameters

• Operational Impact

• DFSMShsm

• ABARS Support

• CDS Support

• Security

• Summary

Sequential Data Striping

• Methodology

• Features

• Requirements

• Implementation

Extended Sequential Data Set

Storage Class

• Considerations

Dynamic Cache Management Enhancement

• Dynamic Cache Management

• DCME Function

Aggregate Backup and Recovery

Introduction

Defining an Aggregate Group

• Setting Up

• Defining the Aggregate

• Selection Lists

• The Output

• Recovery

• Multiple tape copies