z/OS: HSM Implementation and Control

Course Overview

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.

Audience

This course is suitable for systems programmers and storage administrators who are responsible for implementing and managing Hierarchical Storage Manager (HSM) within an 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 operators skills.

Course Outline

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

z/OS: HSM Implementation and Control / HSM (HSMGB)