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CA Disk and DFSMS

CA Disk has been developed to provide system managed storage for all data within an enterprise, whether under the control of SMS or not. Using a combination of the traditional rules for managing data, along with the SMS constructs where appropriate, storage administrators can use CA Disk to design sophisticated storage management schemes that will meet the needs of multiple users, expedite routine application production processing, and slow the ever-increasing demand for additional costly hardware storage devices.

The following flowchart reveals the logic flow used when CA Disk processes an SMS managed data set. It will assist you in understanding how the CA Disk SMS sysparms process an SMS managed data set.

CA Disk and DFSMS