Cited references and notes

1. J. P. Gelb, “System-Managed Storage,” IBM Systems Journal 28, No. 1, 77–103 (1989).
2. “Allocation” describes the function of z/OS in which resources such as volumes and devices are assigned to fulfill a data set request.
3. The disk volume can be a logical volume within a disk subsystem.
4. LIMIT is defined as the net number of tapes that have been returned to the scratch pool: the number of input tapes returned to the scratch pool less the number of new output tapes written.
5. For enhanced capacity tape cartridges, the capacities double with an IBM Tape Drive 3590 Model B being able to write 20 GB and a 3590 Model E being able to write 40 GB of data on a cartridge.
6. A stripe is the portion of the data set that resides on one volume.
7. CI is a VSAM logical disk block. It is the minimum number of data bytes transferred by a VSAM disk access. The size of a CI is an exact multiple (1 or more) of the disk block size for the type of device in use (e.g., an IBM 3390 direct access storage device).
8. The name RAMAC was originally derived from random access method of accounting and control and was given to the first IBM disk storage system. It is now the name of an IBM product line consisting of a multiple-disk storage subsystem.
9. Parallel Sysplex Test Report, Latest Edition, z/OS Integration Test, IBM Corporation, http://www.s390.ibm.com/os390/support/os390tst.
10. Consolidated Service Test and the RSU, IBM Corporation, http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/servicetst.

General references

DFSMS, IBM Corporation, http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/software/sms/

R. F. Kern and V. T. Peltz, IBM Storage e-Infrastructure for Multi-Site Data Availability, White Paper, IBM Corporation (November 16, 2001).

J. P. Strickland, “VSAM Record-Level Data Sharing,” IBM Systems Journal 36, No. 2, 361–370 (1997).

z/OS DFSMSdfp Storage Administration Reference, SC26-7402, IBM Corporation.

z/OS DFSMSdss Storage Administration Reference, SC35-0424, IBM Corporation.

z/OS DFSMShsm Storage Administration Guide, SC35-0421, IBM Corporation.

z/OS DFSMShsm Storage Administration Reference, SC35-0422, IBM Corporation.

z/OS DFSMS Implementing System-Managed Storage, SC26-7407, IBM Corporation.

z/OS DFSMS Object Access Method Planning, Installation, and Storage Administration Guide for Tape Libraries, SC35-0427, IBM Corporation.

z/OS DFSMSrmm Guide and Reference, SC26-7404, IBM Corporation.

z/OS Internet Library, IBM Corporation; see http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv.