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Automating the Exclusion of Retained Backstore Volumes

A CA Earl report is provided to list the Backstore Physical Volumes; VOLSERs being retained for additional output. You can accumulate the exclusion of these physical volumes by executing the provided report job with a FILEOUT DD coded to create a sequential file containing a list of the VOLSERs in the report. The FILEOUT DD data set is then coded on the PEXCLUDE DD in the RECYCLE JCL to exclude these volumes from RECYCLE input processing.

Note: For additional information about this report, see the chapter “Reports”.

An example of the JCL to execute the report with a FILEOUT DD and pass the created data set to a RECYCLE job can be found in HLQ.CCUUJCL(RECYCLE1).