Setting EDM or VRS rules

This is an optional step. You can specify EDM or VRS rules for archive and ML2 tape management.

About this task

When Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm archives files to tape, each tape is created with permanent retention (EXPDT=99365). When a tape no longer contains any valid archived files, Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm sets the tape expiration date to whatever value you specify for the ARCHIVE-TAPE-EXPIRATION-DAYS parameter. No EDM or VRS rules are required to control the retention of the archive tapes. If you want to establish EDM or VRS rules, the expiration process also releases the tape from those controls.

When Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm restores archived files, the files are unloaded to a new tape that is formatted like a DFSMShsm ML2 tape and the DFSMShsm control data sets are updated. These new ML2 tapes should have the same EDM or VRS rule management as the ML2 tapes that are created by DFSMShsm.

• If you choose to set EDM or VRS rules for the archive tapes, reference program names AXQRCHIV and AXQRCYCL.
• If your EDM or VRS rules for ML2 tapes use only the data set name to identify the tape files that should be managed, no action is required. However, if your EDM or VRS rules for ML2 tapes reference job name or program name, you must add new rules that match the new ML2 tapes that are created by the Restore process. The name of the programs that create the new ML2 tapes is AXQRESTR and AXQTINIT.

What to do next

Go on to Starting the ISPF interface for Advanced Archive for DFSMShsm.