Retaining ABARS accompany tapes applies equally to old ABARS tapes and ABARS tapes created under DFSMS. You can retain and manage ABARS accompany tapes based on the naming conventions your installation uses. Modify the example shown in Figure 1 with data set names, COUNT, and STORENUMBER values for your installation. In the example shown in Figure 1, we assume that all accompany tapes end with '.COPY'.

RMM ADDVRS DSNAME('app11.**.COPY') COUNT(10) CYCLES -
    LOCATION(REMOTE) STORENUMBER(10) DELAY(1)

app11.**.COPY

Specifies the data set name mask that identifies the application data set names to retain. DFSMSrmm keeps all data sets that begin with prefix app11 and end with COPY. You can use any data set name you choose and can select vital record specification options to best match those selected for your aggregate groups or other retention and movement policies.

COUNT(10)

Specifies the number of versions of the data set to retain.

CYCLES

Specifies that DFSMSrmm retain data sets based on cycles or copies of a data set.

LOCATION(REMOTE)

Specifies the storage location called REMOTE to which the number of volumes for the data sets specified in STORENUMBER should be moved.

STORENUMBER(10)

Represents a number of versions to be kept in a storage location.