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zFS Candidate Volumes

A zFS candidate volume is a volume you can use when your environmental setup dictates that zFS container data sets are directed to the specified volume.

Use one or more zFS candidate volumes when your environmental setup dictates that zFS container data sets are directed to the specified zFS candidate volumes used by CA MSM in the IDCAMS statement to create the zFS container VSAM data set.

The zFS candidate volumes are only required if the following is true:

• Your deployment has USS parts.
• You are doing a container copy.
• You selected zFS as the container type.
• The remote system requires it.

  Note: Remote system requirement is customer defined.

To allocate and maintain your disk, the following products are recommended:

CA Allocate

CA Allocate is a powerful and flexible allocation management system that lets the Storage Administrator control the allocation of all z/OS data sets.

CA Disk Backup and Restore

CA Disk is a flexible, full-featured hierarchal storage management system.

You can also use the following standard IBM techniques:

• Allocation exits
• ACS routines

If none of these options are implemented by the customer, then a candidate list of volumes is needed to tell z/OS where to place the zFS archive.