Basic System DMS PROC › Data Storage Command Language › Commands

Commands

The DMS proc is controlled by commands provided to the SYSIN dd statement. The commands are of four main types:

Environment

Those commands that set up the environment in which CA Disk will run: SET and PASSWORD.

Candidate

Those commands that find candidate data sets: SCAN and FIND.

Selection

Those commands that select or exclude data sets to be processed based on your own specific criteria: SELECT and EXCLUDE.

Action

Commands that take action upon the selected resources: REPORT, VREPORT, BACKUP, BACKUPCC, ARCHIVE, DELETE, VBACKUP, RELEASE, MOVE, COPY, EXPIRE, and BILLING.

The minimum information required for you to execute DSCL is a SCAN or FIND command to name the volumes, catalogs or data set names to be processed, and an action command.

You can add other commands to gain additional selection or functionality.