Expiration Date JCL Keywords

CA TLMS provides the following expiration and retention for tape data sets methods:

Specific criteria or unique Julian date keywords specified in the JCL LABEL parameter
Retention Master File control statements

The following table describes the specifications that can be used in the JCL LABEL parameter for retention types that use expiration date keywords.

The keyword, external, internal, JCL and retention values are summarized below. For more information, see the chapters, “Understanding Tape Retention” and "Reports".

Keyword	External	Internal	JCL	Retention
AGE	AGE/ddd	9992ddd	992dd	5
CATLG	CATLG	9990000	99000 or 90000	1
CATLG/ddd	CATLG/ddd	9990ddd(*)	991dd	3
CYCLE	CYCLE/cc	9999ccc	990cc	4
FOREIGN	FOREIGN	9998000	98000
JDATE	yyyy/ddd	ccyyddd	yyyy/ddd	9
LDATE	LDATE/ddd	9998ddd	98ddd	8
MSG	MSG/mmm	9991mmm	970mm
OJDATE	yyddd	ccyyddd	yyddd
PERM	PERM	9999999	99365 or 99366	7
STATS	STATS/sss	9989sss	none	7
USER	USER/uuu	9988uuu	88uuu	7
ZEROS	ZEROS	0000000	none

(*) Catalog Control is uniquely translated as century 99, year 90, day 000.