Archive or migrate a VSAM data set.

[Barbie Girl]

Hi,

Can a VSAM data set archive? And can we do it manually, could someone please let me know how? Any advice is appreciated.

[Anuj Dhawan]

Assuming you're talking about DFSMShsm migration, then yes VSAM data sets can migrate. Migrating a VSAM cluster is no different to migrating any other type of data-set. They can be migrated to Tape or DASD and frees up space within the primary DASD pool.

[Robert Sample]

Assuming you are talking about HSM, you can use TSO command HMIGRATE to manually migrate a particular data set. If your site is set up for this, you can issue HMIGRATE on ISPF panel 3.4 as well.

[Barbie Girl]

Thank you both. HMIGRATE worked for me.