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by johngreer Mar 8, 2004 last reply Apr 12, 2004

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I want to access SMS info programmatically.
I'm looking to find info from SMS like:

Is this Volume under SMS control?
If so, what other volumes are in the same group?

Is it possible to List/Query SMS via a Batch job or native TSO?
Or can I have ISMF produce this kind of information to a dataset on a periodic basis?

John

P.S. Please forgive me ahead of time if this is not the right place to ask this question. I cannot find a mainframe specific TechRepublic group or a mainframe BBS/Forum site.

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by lrund Mar 9, 2004

John,

You can get the results from ISMF option 2.1 which performs functions for volumes, specifically DASD units. The parameters on the panels allow you to specify specific volumes and storage group names or you can set them both to an '*' to get everything. This will display all volumes under SMS control and by scrolling to the right most column, will tell you the storage group name associated with the volume.

You can also run a batch job to get the information in a report format. Lookup proc SMSBATCH for information in the DFSMS manuals from IBM.

There is also a OS/390 web site with experts for asking specific MVS type guestions. The url is http://search390.techtarget.com/

TBN