Overview of the Build IDCAMS control statements tool

These statements can then be used by other utilities that require data sets to be redefined during processing. The control statements created can be edited to incorporate new definition specifications when required.

This tool drives the Automatic Delete/Define (DRAMS) utility of the BMC Backup and Recovery Solution for IMS product to capture data set allocation information and create the IDCAMS DELETE, ALLOCATE, and DEFINE CLUSTER control statements.

The input control statements for this tool specify the following items:

• Selection criteria for the data sets to include
• Data sets or members in which to store generated IDCAMS control statements
• Values for a subset of DRAMS utility input parameters

The tool selects data sets from information in the Advisor registry. You can specify data sets to be selected for an IMSPLEX, an Advisor database group, a specific DBD, a DBD name pattern, a specific HALDB partition or DEDB area, or a HALDB partition/DEDB area name pattern. If you specify a partition name, area name, or name pattern, you must also specify a DBD or DBD name pattern.

The Build IDCAMS utility can store all generated IDCAMS statements in one output data set, or the utility can store DELETE statements in one data set and store ALLOCATE and DEFINE CLUSTER statements in another. The output data sets can be PDSs or sequential files. If an output data set is a PDS, the utility writes the generated IDCAMS statements for selected objects to PDS members. If the MEMBERTYPE keyword value is DBD, the member name is the DBD name (if the selected object is not a partitioned database and not a DEDB) or the name of each selected partition/area (if the selected object is a partitioned database or a DEDB). The utility places statements for all data sets that belong to a DBD or a partition/area into a single member. If the MEMBERTYPE keyword value is DDN, the utility places statements for each data set in a separate member named with its DDNAME.

The Build IDCAMS control statements tool supports the following parameters of the DRAMS utility. The tool uses internal default parameters for all other parameters.

• DELETENOSCRATCH
• GENERATEMAXCC
• OMITVOL
• USESMS

For more information about these parameters, see the section about using DRAMS utility in the Backup and Recovery Products for IMS Recovery Utility User Guide.