FLASHDA

Use the FLASHDA SAS®-based tool to manage your transition to Solid State Drives (SSD); the tool provides DASD and data set usage reports using SAS code to analyze SMF 42 subtype 6 and SMF 74 subtype 5 records to help you identify volumes and datasets that are good candidates to reside on SSD.

This download is offered as-is.

Download/upload instructions:

FLASHDA.SAS

• Right-click on the above link and select Save Target As (Microsoft Internet Explorer) or Save Link As (Firefox) to save the file to your PC
  
  
• Preallocate a 5 cylinder sequential target dataset on z/OS called USERID.FLASHDA.SASSEQ with the following attributes: RECFM=FB LRECL=80 BLKSIZE=3120 (5 CYL Primary, 5 CYL Secondary, 0 Directory Blocks)
  
  
• FTP the file from your PC to z/OS in binary. It should still be named FLASHDA.SASSEQ.
  
  
• Extract all the members to a new PDS as follows: tso receive indsn('USERID.FLASHDA.SASSEQ')
  
  
• Enter the following and respond with final target: ds('userid.flashda.sas')

FLASHDA.CNTL

• Right-click on the above link and select Save Target As (Microsoft Internet Explorer) or Save Link As (Firefox) to save the file to your PC
  
  
• Preallocate a 5 cylinder sequential target dataset on z/OS called USERID.FLASHDA.CNTLSEQ with the following attributes: RECFM=FB LRECL=80 BLKSIZE=3120 (5 CYL Primary, 5 CYL Secondary, 0 Directory Blocks)
  
  
• FTP the file from your PC to z/OS in binary. It should still be named FLASHDA.CNTLSEQ.
  
  
• Extract all the members to a new PDS as follows: tso receive indsn('USERID.FLASHDA.CNTLSEQ')
  
  
• Enter the following and respond with final target: ds('userid.flashda.cntl')

FLASHDA.LOAD

• Right-click on the above link and select Save Target As (Microsoft Internet Explorer) or Save Link As (Firefox) to save the file to your PC
  
  
• Preallocate a 5 cylinder sequential target dataset on z/OS called USERID.FLASHDA.LOADSEQ with the following attributes: RECFM=FB LRECL=80 BLKSIZE=3120 (5 CYL Primary, 5 CYL Secondary, 0 Directory Blocks)
  
  
• FTP the file from your PC to z/OS in binary. It should still be named FLASHDA.LOADSEQ.
  
  
• Extract all the members to a new PDS as follows: tso receive indsn('USERID.FLASHDA.LOADSEQ')
  
  
• Enter the following and respond with final target: ds('userid.flashda.load')

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