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Scope of the discussion includes :

> Why do we need SMS ?
> Different components of SMS
> Concept of ACS Routine
> How to make changes to SMS ?
> A look at the existing set-up at NCC
> various SMS commands
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Staorage Management Sub-System is

needed to ensure :
- strict organisation of files
- file management on DASD
- to make JCL coding easier
- to make certain facilities available to the
users like PDSEs, OAM etc
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Storage Management Sub-System :

The SMS provides storage management,
program mgmt, data mgmt, and device
management functions for OS/390.
$ It has 4 components :
1. Storage Class
2. Storage Group
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3. Data Class
4. Management Class
$ Automatic Class Selection Routine (ACS)
written by system programmers using class
selection programming language. Sample
routine provided by IBM
$ The SMS functioning transparent to users
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Concept of Automatic Class Selection

routine :
ACS is a programming language used by
system programmers to code for the
different components of SMS i.e. data class,
storage class, management class
> It ’s a English like programming language
which needs to be translated & validated
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Concept of Automatic Class Selection

routine :
> the sample ACS routine available in the
pds ‘SMS.RBI.SRC’
> the ACS routine once activated, they are
written into a SCDS file (a VSAM file)
e.g. SMS.RBIV03.SCDS

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Data Facility Storage Management Sub-

system : It has 4 components
DFSMSdfp - for space , data,program mgmt
DFSMShsm - for automatic backup/
archives
DFSMSrmm-
DFSMSrmm for tape drive support
DFSMSdss (dataset services) - for data
movt ,copying & space mgmt,
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What DFSMS offers :

$ It strictly ensures organization of files as
per the ACS routine
$ Backup and Archive process automated
$ Automatic deletion as per schedule
provided in the system
$ It ensure automatic allocation of volumes
(space) - overrides user input
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The DFSMShsm parameters given in the

member ‘ARCMD00’ of SYS1.PARMLIB.
> The DFSMShsm parms given in the
above member in conjunction with
management class of SMS , are responsible
for automatic deletion and / or migration

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Various SMS commands :

/d sms,vol(xxxxxx)
/v sms,vol(xxxxxx),d
/v sms,vol(xxxxxx),d,n
/d sms,storgrp(xxxxxxx)
/d sms,storgrp(xxxxxxx),listvol
/v sms,storgrp(xxxxxxx),d,n
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RMF Monitor : Resource Monitoring

Facility
- allows channel path monitoring
- monitoring of ‘paging’ activity
- on-line viewing of DASD activity
- also allows monitoring of response time of
different volumes
- it allows seeing the srorage gp for all DASDs
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 THANK YOU !

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