Step 5: Convert the CA-EPIC/MVS Vaulting Rules

This step consists of the CONVEVLR job that converts CA-EPIC/MVS vaulting policies to Control-M/Tape rule definitions. Job CONVEVLR does the following:

• Runs CA-EPIC/MVS VMS utility TSIVBCP3 to create a report that lists all VMS selection criteria records and rules, and box, case, and pallet definitions.
• Runs conversion program CTTCEPV to convert the data produced by utility TSIVBCP3 into rules in the Control-M/Tape Rule Definition library.

Before running the CONVEVLR job, use CA-EPIC/MVS utility TSIVBUTL to purge, delete, and reorganize the VMS Catalog as necessary. The VMS Catalog must be free of records marked for deletion and history records for tapes that have completed their vaulting cycle.

In the CONVEVLR job, specify the name of the member to contain the converted rules in parameter RULEMEM (in step VMS) of this job. The Control-M/Tape Rule Definition library (specified in the RULELIB parameter) is allocated during Control-M/Tape installation.

Run the job.

All steps must end with a condition code of 0.

Do not change the rule definitions created in this step until after jobs CONVVTM and CONVTRTM in Steps 18 and 19 have been run. This helps ensure compatibility between the Control-M/Tape Media Database and CA-EPIC/MVS tape library.