You can use DFSORT symbols in ICETOOL and DFSORT jobs to create reports for DFSMSrmm-managed resources. DFSORT symbols provide the positions, lengths, and formats of the fields and the values of the constants associated with DFSMSrmm data you are processing with ICETOOL and DFSORT.

IBM's development teams for DFSMS and DFSORT have already created DFSORT symbols, and sample jobs that use them, for data that are associated with DFSMSrmm. You can obtain these IBM-created materials as described in DFSORT symbols for use with DFSMSrmm. Then you can substitute the symbols for the DFSMSrmm fields you need into ICETOOL and DFSORT jobs.

This topic provides an overview of how DFSORT symbols work in general, as well as a specific example of their use for DFSMSrmm reporting.