Retention Management

CA-EPIC/MVS stores retention information for tape datasets in the DSN Catalog and in member EPICOPTS.

OPTION SELECT statements, in member EPICOPTS, are used to define retention criteria for groups of datasets. These statements are checked each time a dataset is automatically cataloged.

• If a match is found, the matching information in the table is used.
• If a match is not found, global default values are used.

Individual datasets not belonging to any group are defined manually in the DSN Catalog.

During the conversion process, the conversion tool automatically converts CA-EPIC/MVS Retention Policies (from both the EPICOPTS member in the startup library and the EDD records in the DSN Catalog) to Control-M/Tape rule definitions. The conversion from EDD records is performed in two steps to allow for manual deletion of "unneeded" statements before they are converted to Control-M/Tape rules. Each set of converted rules is placed in a separate table and identified with a specified prefix.