Assigning a management class

A whole series of attributes can be assigned to a single object (file, job variable or file generation group) by assigning it the name of a management class. The management class defines a number of backup and migration attributes for that object. A management class can only be assigned to objects located on SM pubsets. A management class cannot be assigned to objects on a private disk, a tape or an SF pubset.

A management class can be assigned to a file with the DMS commands CREATE-FILE and MODIFY-FILE-ATTRIBUTES. For a job variable with the DMS commands CREATE-JV and MODIFY-JV-ATTRIBUTES and for a file generation group with the DMS commands CREATE-FILE-GROUP and MODIFY-FILE-GROUP-ATTRIBUTES.