Identifying and Excluding Special Jobs

Exclude some data sets from tape mount management as the data needs to remain on tape for the following reasons:

Disaster recovery
Vital records
Interchange data

These data sets sometimes have a recognizable pattern, such as the following:

“*.DR.**” can identify the disaster recovery data sets
EXPDT=9800 usually indicates offsite tapes to the tape management system
VRJOB is the job name for all the vital records jobs.

Tip: If your tape management system provides support for the pre-ACS routine exit and supplies the MDEST parameter, you might be able to identify most of these data sets by using an MSDEST parameter value other than 'NULL'.