Storage Toolkit

This topic describes the Storage Toolkit feature, which enables you to use actions in the Tivoli® Enterprise Portal. The Storage Toolkit actions provide convenient access to mainframe operations that let you target resources such as volumes and mainframe data sets. For example, you use the actions to migrate data sets or release free space.

Product-provided menus and dialog boxes enable you to initiate a broad range of commonly used mainframe commands. You can also issue custom commands. Using the Storage Toolkit, you can invoke commands from the following facilities in a z/OS system: The Storage Toolkit also enables you to create and submit user-defined JCL streams.

Storage Toolkit menus and dialog boxes

This section describes the actions that are available in the context menus of the Storage Toolkit.

To access the actions, you select and right-click rows in the workspaces that have action menus. A context menu is displayed where you now select an item such as Dataset Actions. Then you choose the appropriate action from the submenu. When you select an action, a dialog box is displayed where you configure the action and submit the request.

The items on the context menu vary depending on the selected resources, however the following items are always available:
  • Create Command
  • Create Batch Job
  • Submit Command or Job
These items do not have submenus. When you select them, you proceed directly to the corresponding dialog box.
Some actions can process multiple resources in a single request. In other words, you can run a single action against multiple resources. For example, to migrate multiple data sets you can proceed as follows:
  1. Select the target resources in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
  2. Right-click and select Dataset Actions > Migrate.
  3. Configure the command.
  4. Submit the request. The Migrate command is issued against each resource.
When you select an action, the Storage Toolkit launches a dialog box where you configure the action. The dialog boxes contain a set of standard tabs, which are described in Standard tabs in the dialog boxes of the Storage Toolkit.
Custom commands and jobs
Name of menu item Corresponding dialog box
Create Batch Job Create Batch Job dialog box
Create Command Issue Command dialog box
Submit Command or Job Submit Command or Job dialog box
Actions related to volumes that are displayed in workspaces of the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
Name of menu item Corresponding dialog box
Backup Volume Backup dialog box
Convert Volume Conversion dialog box
Migrate Volume Migration dialog box
Release Space Volume Space Release dialog box
Compress Compress dialog box
Defrag Defrag dialog box
Actions related to data sets that are displayed in workspaces of the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
Actions related to DFSMShsm

Cancel HSM Request dialog box. The menu item that corresponds to this dialog box is available when all the selected items are either queued or active. If the state of any selected item is complete, abended, or cancelled, the menu is not available.

Actions related to DFSMSrmm
Name of menu item Corresponding dialog box
Actions related to DFSMSrmm-related data sets
Add Dataset Add Dataset dialog box
Change Dataset Change Dataset dialog box
Delete Dataset Delete Dataset dialog box
Actions related to DFSMSrmm-related owners
Add Owner Add Owner dialog box
Change Owner Change Owner dialog box
Delete Owner Delete Owner dialog box
Actions related to DFSMSrmm-related volumes
Add Volume Add Volume dialog box
Change Volume Change Volume dialog box
Confirm Actions Confirm Actions for All Volumes dialog box
Delete Volume Delete Volume dialog box
Actions related to DFSMSrmm-related VRS resources
Add VRS Add VRS dialog box
Change VRS Change VRS dialog box
Delete VRS Delete VRS dialog box

The documentation for the z/OS operating system includes reference information for the commands and parameters that the Storage Toolkit uses. You can access documentation for the version of z/OS that you use through the following Web page: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/