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Hi Team,

I am a Storage Administrator. I am trying to extract 'V' type records from DCOLLECT report with the help of ICETOOL. I am using the below ICETOOL control card.

INCLUDE COND=(9,1,CH,EQ,C'V',AND,
35,1,BI,NE,B'......10')
OUTFIL VTOF,BUILD=(87,10,1X,29,6,1X,13,4,1X,
35,1,CHANGE=(11,
B'......11',C'SMS MANAGED',
B'......01',C'CONVERSION',
B'......00',C'NON SMS'),1X,80:X)

This is working fine and giving the output. However, in my site there are 1000 NON-SMS volumes and 2000 SMS managed volumes. But, in output it is showing 956 volumes as NON-SMS volumes and the balance 44 volumes as SMS MANAGED. Actually, these 44 volumes are NON_SMS volumes.

So, under SMS MANAGED it is showing as 2044 volumes.

Could somebody help me in this regard.

What does ISMF show you for non-SMS and SMS-managed volumes?

ISMF shows as "LIST HAS NO ENTRIES" for NON-SMS volumes. Also when I executed the below storage command it is giving the output as mentioned :

Storage Command :

/D SMS,VOL(ATKMD5)

Output of above command is :

RESPONSE=BCP11 CBR1064I COMMAND REJECTED. VOLUME SERIAL NUMBER ATKMD5
RESPONSE=UNDEFINED.

Generally, RESPONSE=UNDEFINED means it's a NON-SMS volume. But the same volume is indicating as SMS MANAGED when I am trying to extract from Dcollect.

Thanks N Regards
Ravi

Hi Team,

Can somebody help me on this issue. Please...

Thanks N Regards
Ravi

Always thought that the record type field was two bytes in length

No the record type field is 1 byte in length. I am not getting any clue on this.

a storage administrator should know better that the record type is two bytes
as per the DSECT provided by SYS1.MACLIB(IDCDOUT) macro



but then there are 1 byte storage administrators and 2 bytes storage administrators

@Enrico,

But the IBM PDF on "Interpreting DCOLLECT output" indicates that the position I am trying look in DCOLLECT (30(X'1E')) BITSTRING type is of length=1.

Could you please look into my control card help me in writing the correct control card.

Thanks N Regards
Ravi

To add to Enrico's post, if you look in the manual at appendix F.1 on the Output Record Structure for DCOLLECT, you will find

4(X'4') CHARACTER 2 DCURCTYP RECORD TYPE FOR THIS RECORD (see Table 26)

If you do not even know how long the record type is for DCOLLECT, why are you even worrying about SMS versus non-SMS managed volumes?

Are you distinguishing between the V and VL record types in your processing? VL is SMS VOLUME DEF while V is VOLUME TYPE RECORD -- and the two are NOT the same.

horse manure, any reason not to trust the record layout as defined by the IBM written macro ?

to add some more there are two record types starting with V ... "V " and "VL"

but why not exercise the DSFORT examples for DCOLLECT Processing available
starting from
https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview ... g3T7000097

and the examples clearly test for TWO bytes