Pages 4 and 5 of the Management Class Define panel contains the class transition attributes.

Time Since Creation Years, Months, or Days

Indicate the time since the creation date that must pass before transition occurs.

Time Since Last Use Years, Months, or Days

Indicate the time since the last reference date that must pass before transition occurs.

Periodic

Indicates a time based on the calendar at which transition occurs.

Restriction: The Time Since Creation, Time Since Last Use, and Periodic fields cannot be specified together. A maximum date of 9999/12/31 is used if the requested Time Since Creation or Time Since Last Used exceeds the maximum date.

Monthly On Day

Specifies the day of each month that the transition occurs. If there are fewer days in the month than the number specified, the transition occurs on the last day of the month.

Quarterly On Day or In Month

Specify the time of each quarter that the transition occurs. If both Day and Month are specified, this attribute specifies the day of the month in each quarter that the transition occurs. If there are fewer days in the specified month than the number specified in Day, then the transition occurs on the last day of the specified month.

Yearly On Day or In Month

Specify the day or month of each year that transition occurs. If both Day and Month are specified, this attribute specifies the day of the month in each year that transition occurs.

FIRST

Specifies that the transition occurs on the first day of each month, quarter, or year, whichever attribute is specified.

LAST

Specifies that the transition occurs on the last day of each month, quarter, or year.

Transition Copy Technique

Specify which copy technique should be used for the class transition of data associated with this management class.

FRP

Fast replication preferred

FRR

Fast replication required

STD

Standard (the default)

PMP

Flashcopy Preserve Mirror preferred

PMR

Flashcopy Preserve Mirror required

For more information about fast replication, FlashCopy®, Preserve Mirror and other copy services functions, refer toz/OS DFSMS Advanced Copy Services.

Serialization Error Exit

Specify the database or exit to invoke when there is a serialization error.

DB2

DB2

CICS

CICS

Note: See Sample Batch Job for CICS Definitions for a sample batch job that will define the group, transaction, program, session and connection to allow the CICS server program to process the closing and opening of files.

ZFS

z/OS File System

EXIT

User exit

NONE

None (the default)