# 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:

- DFSMSdss (Device Support Services)
- DFSMShsm (Hierarchical Storage Manager)
- ICKDSF (Device Support Facilities)
- IDCAMS (Access Method Services)
- DFSMSrmm™ (DFSMS Removable Media Manager)
- Mainframe (z/OS® console command)
- TSO (Time Sharing Option)

The Storage Toolkit also enables you to create and submit user-defined JCL streams.

- Standard tabs in the dialog boxes of the Storage Toolkit
  The dialog boxes of the Storage Toolkit have similar layouts. This topic describes the tabs that are standard in most of the dialog boxes.
- Data View dialog box
  You use this dialog box to inspect the actual data that will substitute the substitution variables that you define in the Command or Options tabs.
- Create Batch Job dialog box
  You use this dialog box to submit user-defined JCL. This action request is a more flexible equivalent to the toolkit commands that the product provides.
- Edit Data Set dialog box
  You use this dialog box to create, edit, and save JCL, which is displayed in a scrollable ASCII text box in the dialog box. The user ID that you use in the TEP must be a valid mainframe user ID that provides access to the mainframe JCL data set.
- Issue Command dialog box
  You use this dialog box to issue arbitrary commands, including IDCAMS, ICKDSF, DFSMSrmm, DFSMShsm™, DFSMSdss™, TSO, and mainframe console commands in text format.
- Submit Command or Job dialog box
- Volume Backup dialog box
- Volume Conversion dialog box
- Volume Migration dialog box
- Volume Space Release dialog box
- Compress dialog box
- Defrag dialog box
- Dataset Backup dialog box
- Dataset Migration dialog box
- Dataset Copy and Move dialog box
- Dataset Recall dialog box
- Dataset Recover dialog box
- Dataset Space Release dialog box
- Compress dialog box
- Dataset Allocate dialog box
- Dataset Alter dialog box
- Dataset Define Cluster dialog box
- Dataset Catalog dialog box
- Dataset Delete dialog box
- Dataset Listcat dialog box
- Print dialog box
- Dataset Rename dialog box
- Dataset Repro dialog box
- Dataset Uncatalog dialog box
- Dataset Verify dialog box
- Cancel HSM Request dialog box
- Add Dataset dialog box
- Change Dataset dialog box
- Delete Dataset dialog box
- Add Owner dialog box
- Change Owner dialog box
- Delete Owner dialog box
- Add Volume dialog box
- Change Volume dialog box
- Confirm Actions for All Volumes dialog box
- Delete Volume dialog box
- Add VRS dialog box
- Change VRS dialog box
- Delete VRS dialog box

## 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

  Name of menu item | Corresponding dialog box
  --- | ---
  Backup | Dataset Backup dialog box
  Migrate | Dataset Migration dialog box
  Move & Copy | Dataset Copy and Move dialog box
  Recall | Dataset Recall dialog box
  Recover | Dataset Recover dialog box
  Release Space | Dataset Space Release dialog box
  Compress | Compress dialog box
  Print | Print dialog box
  Allocate | Dataset Allocate dialog box
  Rename | Dataset Rename dialog box
  Alter | Dataset Alter dialog box
  Delete | Dataset Delete dialog box
  Listcat | Dataset Listcat dialog box
  Repro | Dataset Repro dialog box
  Verify | Dataset Verify dialog box
  Catalog | Dataset Catalog dialog box
  Uncatalog | Dataset Uncatalog dialog box
  Define Cluster | Dataset Define Cluster dialog box

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/