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# Overview

21st Century Software SpaceFinder Storage Management Solutions (SSMS) v3.2 is a comprehensive application that delivers fast, flexible reporting and storage management for the Enterprise. It is a useful and powerful tool for the visualization of data. SSMS includes the following fully integrated components:

- Pools/Volumes: Storage management reporting from a single point of reference, with comprehensive online analysis and both ad hoc and batch reporting for DASD volumes, device types, dataset names and organizations, storage groups, storage classes, management classes, data classes, and other allocation attributes.
- Datasets: Complete, interactive storage-reporting and storage-modeling tool for planning, implementing, and managing the DFSMS environment. Datasets reports on DFSMS usage by storage group, storage class, data class, and management class. In addition, it identifies inhibitors and unsupported datasets that prevent DFSMS migration.
- Tape: Provides tape usage evaluation within the enterprise for volumes, datasets, HSM, and logical pools.
- DFSMShsm Mgmt: Models and reports DFSMShsm savings and activity, including MCDS, BCDS, and SMF records created by DFHSM. This component makes dataset associations with HMIG datasets, including small-dataset packing options. DFSMShsm Mgmt reports on DFHSM activity such as recall rate; migration and backup failures; and activity by dataset, application, or user. A real-time component allows you to monitor DFHSM activity as it occurs. A DFHSM Query facility allows the user to issue DFHSM QUERY commands from SpaceFinder and capture the output of the command to a report dataset.
- Automation Manager - Provides the user a centralized panel to build and manage SpaceFinder automation processes. An Automation Wizard is available to easily build automation rules within SpaceFinder. Processes automation IF statements against data collected within the z/OS environment to determine whether further actions are deemed necessary. Handles automation on any field in any record created by SSMS.
- Utilities - Provides additional components, including the following:
  - Compare Report on the growth of datasets, group, volumes, and other objects over a period of time
  - Catalog Identify catalog problems and other critical information relative to defined catalogs with a complete catalog-management tool
  - Unix Analyze Unix file systems that reside within z/OS
  - Diagnostics View information about the CPU and the SSMS Settings table
  - Task log View task log entries
- Settings - Lets you change your environment variables in one place, whenever it becomes necessary.

Figure 1. Primary Selection Menu

    SpaceFinder Storage Management Solutions (SSMS) V3R2M0.ATSF320 Row 1 to 2 of 2
    OPTION  ===>

                              SSMS Primary Selection Menu
       1  Pools/Volumes (Disk)
       2  Datasets (Disk)
       3  Tape
       4  DFSMShsm Mgmt
       5  Automation Manager

       U  Utilities
       S  Settings

       X  Exit

    Place "S" next to entry to activate settings suffix.

    S Status  Sfx Description
      Active  00  Default settings suffix
              01