You can run a trial run of inventory management vital record processing before DFSMSrmm makes the changes. The trial run lets you see how the vital record specifications you defined would be processed in a production run except that DFSMSrmm does not make any changes to the control data set.

1. Allocate the ACTIVITY file that DFSMSrmm uses to record data set changes that would result during inventory management vital record processing.
2. Submit an inventory management job using JCL as shown in Figure 2 to request a trial run of vital record processing. Perform step 3, 4, and 5 until you are satisfied that the correct policies are in place.
3. Analyze the ACTIVITY file to see what changes would have occurred based on the vital record specifications you defined.
4. Change vital record specifications by deleting and adding vital record specifications as needed to correct the policies you want in place.
5. Check the EDGRMMxx member OPTION VRSCHANGE operand value. Make sure VRSCHANGE(VERIFY) is specified so that DFSMSrmm issues message EDG2308I if any changes are made since the last run of inventory management.
6. Submit an inventory management job requesting a production run of vital record processing after you have completed making changes to the vital record specifications.