HSM Implementation and Control

Audience

This course is suitable for systems programmers and storage administrators who are responsible for implementing and managing Hierarchical Storage Manager (HSM) within a z/OS installation.

Prerequisites

Delegates are expected to have an understanding of z/OS Storage Management that may be obtained from our z/OS Storage Management Fundamentals course and general system programming and operator’s skills.

Duration

3 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

The course covers all practical aspects of installing HSM and the ongoing management and control tasks. Lab exercises are included to support the learning process.

Course Content

Introduction
Storage management issues today
DFSMShsm major functions
· Space management
· Availability management
DFSMShsm Environment Overview
· The HSM address space
· DFSMShsm control dataset overview
· DFSMShsm parameters overview
· DFSMShsm command overview

Space Management
Primary Space Management
Secondary Space Management
Interval Space Management
The RECALL Process

Availability Management
Data Set Backup
Volume Dumping
Data Set Recovery
Volume Recovery
ABARS

HSM Data Sets
MCDS, BDS, OCDS, JRNL, LOGS, EDITLOG, PDA

Installing DFSMShsm
Allocating the Data Sets
ARCCMDxx
The HSM Procedure
The Starter Set
The IVP
Management Class

Monitoring DFSMShsm
LIST
REPORT
AUDIT
Routine Management
RECYCLE
EXPIREBV

DFSMShsm Recovery
CDS Loss/Failure
L0 Loss
ML1 Loss
ML2 Loss
FIXCDS