Working with external storage pools

With external storage pools you can migrate files to storage pools managed by an external application such as IBM Storage Protect.

The following topics describe how to work with external storage pools:

• Defining the external pools
• User-provided program for managing external pools
• File list format
• Record format
• Migrate and recall with external pools
• Pre-migrating files with external storage pools
• Purging files from external storage pools
• Using thresholds to migrate data between pools