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Option 8 is used to manage the control datasets. This is explained more in the ACS routine page. Updates are normally made to the SCDS, tested then promoted to the ACDS at activation time.

The CommsDS is used to communicate SMS information between LPARS and contains information like storage pool occupancy statistics, SMS status and the name of the ACDS. SMS has three control datasets, the Active Control Dataset (ACDS) the Source Control Dataset (SCDS) and the Communications Dataset (CommsDS). The Cloud Define/Alter panel is used to create or alter a cloud definition. The Cloud Application Selection panel is used for administrative functions such as List, Display, Define, or Alter. When you select 'S', you will see two further panels Option 'S' is relatively new and is used to manage cloud tiering. This is useful when things go wrong, especially if it wasn't you. The display option will tell you who last updated each of the four routines. By then, your output listing file will have migrated off to tape, and your screen will be locked up while you wait for it to come back. Why? Because it will probably be a few months before you do this again. Its always best to select the Delete option. When you come out of the validation page, you get a message. When you translate or validate the ACS routines, you have to specify the output file for the messages. Option 7 is used to manage the ACS routines, the menu system should be easy to follow, and is discussed on the ACS routines page. Options 3-6 are used to change the SMS constructs, details of this are in the construct subpages which you can find in the index on the right (below for mobiles). Options 1 and 2 are used to report on datasets and volumes. So what does ISMF do? Most of the options are self explanatory, and have good help screens behind them.
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The full set of menu options looks like this, for SMS 2.3. Most sites restrict access to this, either by restricting access to the change user panel (DGTDPPF5) with RACF, or with some local coding. Go back in again, and you will see the full set of options. You will then see a panel likeĬhange your user mode to '2 For a Storage Administrator (SA)', press enter, then use PF3 until you get right out of ISMF. Most people have been using SMS for so long, they forget that if new users want to see the full Storage Users menu list, you must take option '0', then option '0' again to change the user mode. The first time you use ISMF you will see a restricted panel with a limited number of options. Your site will probably have ISMF as a menu item somewhere, but the TSO command TSO ISMF seems to work everywhere.
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If you use the Data Set or Volume options from the menu, then ISMF can be used for space monitoring and dataset reporting, and also to delete, backup, release free space, migrate, recall, copy and change the security access to datasets. The Interactive System Management Facility is an ISPF menu driven application used to control SMS. Volumes are added to storage groups dynamically as they are opened for output. You do not define tape volumes in tape storage groups as you do for DASD. Tape libraries are defined to SMS via the ISMF Library Define panel.


This is usually done by an external tape management system like CA1 or TLMS. SMS tape manages the tape volumes, the tape devices, and the tape libraries, but not the data on the volumes. To change the constructs, you need to use either ISMF or console commands. Each of these constructs are detailed in the five sub-pages. These policies are determined by four constructs, the Data Class, Management Class, Storage Class and Storage Group, managed by ACS routines. SMS can decide what files look like, when they migrate between various types of storage, what type of performance they should get and what storage they are initially allocated to.
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What it will give you, is a general introduction, then some hints and tips on how to make SMS work.
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This section will not tell you everything about DFSMS, there are plenty of IBM manuals out there. By and large, those design requirements were met.
