WH – Warehouses
This option is used to define, maintain, and view warehouses. Warehouses are used to store component versions and their respective parts.
Warehouses
Adding and Maintaining Warehouse Definitions
Type A on the Command line to add a new entry or S to select an existing one. The screen in the following figure is displayed.
Adding and Maintaining Warehouse Definitions
Field Descriptions
The following table describes each of the fields that can be entered.
Field Descriptions
Field Name | Description |
|---|---|
Warehouse | The logical name of the Warehouse. This must be a unique name. |
CT Server Name | The name of the Component Transport Server Name as specified in M.HS. |
Allocation Type | Currently only Allocation Types of MVS are supported. Future releases of ISPW will support warehouses on other platforms. |
Description | Descriptive information used to identify the warehouse. |
Dataset Prefix | This specifies the HLQs for the Storage dataset. Datasets will be named as follows: 'Thisprefix.Warehousename.StorageID.WPDS' The StorageID will be determined by ISPW. |
Management Class | The rest of the parameters are standard allocation parms for MVS datasets. Consider specifying large space to limit the number of datasets that ISPW will create. |
Storage Class | |
Volume Serial | |
Device Type | |
Data Class | |
Space Units | |
Primary Quantity | |
Secondary Quantity |
Warehouse Datasets
After a Warehouse is defined, no warehouse datasets are created until they are needed. Information about the datasets ISPW has created is available by entering N from the main WH screen.
Warehouse Datasets
Storage Names Screen
The screen shown in the following figure is displayed.
Storage Names Screen
Field Descriptions
The following table describes each of the fields on the screen.
Field Descriptions
Field Name | Description |
|---|---|
Warehouse | The logical name of the Warehouse. |
StorageID | This is ISPW’s logical name for the physical warehouse storage name. ISPW will create these as it needs more space. |
Storage Name | The physical storage identifier. For a warehouse on MVS it will relate to a PDSE dataset. |
Status | This can be Active, Full, or Unavailable:
Drain is used to empty a warehouse dataset and have the members moved to another. This is sometimes useful if there are many underutilized datasets to consolidate them. Entering M against the Storage Name will toggle the status between “Unavailable” and “Active”. |