Other space management considerations

In addition to the aspects of space management discussed in Space management of SMS-managed storage and Space management of non-SMS-managed storage, you need to consider the following topics:

• Space management of extended address volumes (EAVs)
  • Track management for SMS-managed volumes
  • Track management for non-SMS-managed volumes
  • Controlling allocations to extended address volumes (EAVs)
  • Recommendations for using extended address volumes (EAVs)
• Common recall queue
• Processing priority of recalls and deletions
• Migration volume contention priorities
• Specifying the desired number of ML2 partial tapes
• Preventing the processing of data sets during space management
• Deferred generation data sets
• Security considerations for automatic space management
• Access method services considerations
• GUARANTEED SPACE attribute considerations
• DFSMShsm retrieval of management classes and storage groups
• Deletion of dynamic I/O device considerations