Pools in systems running under JES3

In systems running under JES3, three kinds of pools exist. In addition to the user-defined pools that you define as described earlier, DFSMShsm configures a general pool from the unit control block associated with primary volumes and from information obtained from the ADDVOL command. The general pool is a collection of all primary volumes that:

Volumes in the general pool can also be defined in one or more data set or volume pools. The general pool is the default pool where DFSMShsm recalls migrated data sets if they are not restricted for recall to a user-defined pool.