CA Dynam for VSE User Guide

Defining Disk Pools for AVR (COMAVR) .................................................... 4-32
Attention Routine (AR) Commands ........................................................ 4-32
Allocating Space across Generic Volumes...................................................... 4-33
Automatic Secondary Allocation........................................................... 4-34
Disk Pool Management ................................................................... 4-34
Catalog Management..................................................................... 4-34
Defining Minimum Space Allocation ........................................................... 4-35
Recovering from Lack of Allocated Space ...................................................... 4-36
Recovery Process Description ............................................................. 4-36
Operator Recovery Actions ............................................................... 4-36
Defining Independent Files ................................................................... 4-38
JCL-Defined Partition and CPU Independent Files........................................... 4-38
Catalog-Defined Partition and CPU Independent Files....................................... 4-40
Releasing Unused Disk Space................................................................. 4-40
Truncating Files.......................................................................... 4-41
Deleting Files................................................................................ 4-42
Deleting Data Files ....................................................................... 4-42
Deleting Work Files ...................................................................... 4-42
CA SORT Work Files...................................................................... 4-42
Processing Expired Files...................................................................... 4-43
Retention and Expiration Date Criteria..................................................... 4-43
Retention and Expiration Date Processing ................................................. 4-43
Processing of Equal File IDs .................................................................. 4-45
Sending File-Dependent System Messages .................................................... 4-45
SORT Considerations ........................................................................ 4-46
CA SORT Interface ....................................................................... 4-46
IBM Sort/Merge Program ................................................................. 4-47
Using Option S .......................................................................... 4-48
Specifying the SET Command ................................................................ 4-48
Restarting Checkpointed Files............................................................. 4-52
Chapter 5: Supporting Disk File Management
Disk File Maintenance Utilities ................................................................. 5-1
Modifying the VTOC—CAINTDK ............................................................ 5-1
Converting EXTENTs—DYNCONV ........................................................... 5-3
Pre-Open Processing—DYNOPEN ........................................................... 5-8
Controlling Disk Files—DYNUTIL .......................................................... 5-11
Reporting on Disk Files....................................................................... 5-42
Disk Space Usage Analysis—SPACEUSE ................................................... 5-43
Volume Table of Contents—VTOCS ........................................................ 5-47
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