Storage Toolkit

With the Storage Toolkit feature you can use actions in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal or the RDM interface.

These Storage Toolkit actions provide convenient access to mainframe operations to target resources such as volumes and mainframe data sets. For example, you use the actions to migrate data sets or release free space.

The Situation Storage Toolkit Extension enhancement provides you with the ability to associate a Storage Toolkit command with a situation. This means that the Storage Toolkit command will be run when the situation becomes true. All of the capabilities of the Storage Toolkit can now be associated with a situation including the ability to issue custom commands, batch JCL, and Storage Toolkit generated commands. See Associating Storage Toolkit commands with situations for more information.

Product-provided menus and dialog boxes enable you to initiate a broad range of commonly used mainframe commands. You can also issue custom commands. Using the Storage Toolkit, you can invoke commands from the following facilities in a z/OS® system:
  • DFSMSdss (Device Support Services)
  • DFSMShsm (Hierarchical Storage Manager)
  • ICKDSF (Device Support Facilities)
  • IDCAMS (Access Method Services)
  • DFSMSrmm (DFSMS Removable Media Manager)
  • Mainframe (z/OS console command)
  • TSO (Time Sharing Option)

The Storage Toolkit also enables you to create and submit user-defined JCL streams.