Retention Management

During conversion to Control-M/Tape, you can indicate that datasets must be kept permanently or until their MVS Catalog entry is deleted.

Note: Datasets created with a specific expiration date (through JCL keywords RETPD or EXPDT), are assigned that specific expiration date, that is, instead of the retention type specified to the conversion tool.

Various other retention types can be specified for datasets after Control-M/Tape implementation is complete. For more information about retention types, see DO RETENTION and DO ABENDRET in the rule parameters chapter of the Control-M/Tape User Guide.