Tech – Mainframe

To display all the Storage Groups of the currently active SMS configuration, we use the command: D SMS,SG(ALL) Example: D SMS,SG(ALL) IGD002I 15:24:57 DISPLAY SMS 749 STORGRP  TYPE    SYSTEM= 1 SGTSTVL  POOL            + SGDB2VL  POOL            + DUMMY    DUMMY           . SGOVRFL  POOL            * SGTAPE   TAPE            + ***************************** LEGEND ***************************** . THE […]

If you come across the need to check the status of a storage group then you can use the MVS command: D SMS,SG(storage_group) For example: storage group name:  STGTSTVL RESPONSE=SYST IGD002I 15:17:43 DISPLAY SMS 939 STORGRP  TYPE    SYSTEM= 1 SGTSTVL  POOL            + ***************************** LEGEND ***************************** . THE STORAGE GROUP OR […]

If you wish to display which libraries are connected to your system you can use the MVS command: D SMS,LIB(ALL) Example: D SMS,LIB(ALL) RESPONSE=SYST IGD002I 15:10:50 DISPLAY SMS 869 LIBRARY   CLASS  SYSTEM= 1 TSTATL1   TAPE           + ***************************** LEGEND ***************************** . THE LIBRARY IS NOT DEFINED TO THE SYSTEM + THE […]

One of the ways (and probably the easiest) to check if a volume is SMS-managed is by using the MVS command: D SMS,VOL(volser) Here’s an example: volume:  TST001 Command: D SMS,VOL(TST001) The result would be: RESPONSE=SYST IGD002I 09:52:24 DISPLAY SMS 382 VOLUME UNIT SYSTEM= 1 STORGRP NAME TST001 5B22 + […]