A problem when BDAM files with key are copied by DFSMSdss.
I have a problem with my BDAM files with key when the files are copied using DFSMSdss of z/OS. If the files are copied using physical processing, everything is OK. If the files are copied using logical processing, reading existing records is OK, but writing a new record into the copied files fails with BDAM [...]

Answer Question   |  October 8, 2012  9:21 AM
DFSM, z/OS

Second tier storage: Putting our DFSMS/HSM ML1 data on FATA-disk
We are mainframe users (IBM Z9 and Z10). All DASD is IBM DS8300 and we are looking at the implementation of a second tier. We would like to put our DFSMS/HSM ML1 data on FATA-disk. After some calculations we found out that a 150 TB second tier buffer would be big enough to store one [...]

Answer Question   |  November 14, 2008  7:29 PM
Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem, Data storage management, DFSM, FATA, Fibre Attached Technology Adapted, Hierarchical Storage Management, HSM, Tiered storage