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Overview

CA Disk is a flexible, full-featured hierarchal storage management system. This guide introduces you to CA Disk and provides an overview of the basic concepts.

This chapter briefly touches on basic concepts and features of CA Disk. In order for you to understand the basic concepts and features, the chapter first provides a brief explanation of certain system conventions and requirements. It then briefly describes the system functions, and to some degree, function options. For more information about all of these subjects, see the Installation Guide, User Guide, and Systems Guide.

This section contains the following topics:

Basic Conventions and Requirements

Special Considerations

CA OPS/MVS Support

CA Disk and DFSMS

CA Disk Features

Basic System-FMS PROC

FILES Maintenance

MERGE

MOVE and COPY

Idle Space Release

PDS Compression

Sequential Migration to Tape

DASD Billing

ISPF

TSO Command Processor

CA Datacom

CA Vantage GMI