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We recommend that you review these references before defining policies to DFSMSrmm.

Defining vital record specifications and Using vital record specifications to retain and move volumes describe the retention and movement policies you can define with DFSMSrmm. You can define the policies known as vital record specifications using the RMM ISPF dialog or the RMM TSO subcommand.
Defining vital record specifications describes how to define vital record specifications by using the RMM ISPF dialog.
Using RMM TSO subcommands describes these RMM TSO subcommands: ADDVRS, CHANGEVRS, DELETEVRS, LISTVRS, and SEARCHVRS.
z/OS DFSMSrmm Implementation and Customization Guide:
- Describes the DFSMSrmm parmlib member EDGRMMxx OPTION command operands. The operands CATRETPD, MAXRETPD, and RETPD are used to specify retention periods. The operands EXPDTDROP, VRSCHANGE, VRSDROP, VRSJOBNAME, VRSMIN, and VRSRETAIN are used to control how DFSMSrmm processes retention and movement policies. The GDG operand is used to control how generation data groups are handled for cycle retention by VRSEL processing. The DFSMSrmm parmlib member EDGRMMxx LOCDEF command is used to define locations where volumes can be moved. The DFSMSrmm parmlib member EDGRMMxx OPTION command RETAINBY and MOVEBY operands are used to specify if DFSMSrmm retains or moves volumes as a set or as individual volumes. See Retaining and moving volumes as sets or individually for information about using the DFSMSrmm EDGRMMxx parmlib OPTION RETAINBY and MOVEBY operands to define how volumes are retained or moved.
- Describes DFSMSrmm inventory management vital record processing that performed for retention and movement policies to take effect.
- Provides vital record specification examples for retaining and moving DFSMShsm data sets.
- Provides information about using the DFSMSrmm EDG_EXIT100 exit to assign vital record management values to data sets.