Special cycles format is CYCL/ccccc where ccccc is the number of cycles to be retained. You define the number of cycles to be retained with the COUNT and BYDAYSCYCLE or CYCLES operands in the RMM ADDVRS subcommand.

You can specify the retention amount using COUNT(nnnnn), where nnnnn is a number in the range 1 to 99999. Use COUNT with CYCLES to specify the number of cycles a data set should be retained. For example, if you code CYCLES COUNT(5) in a vital record specification, DFSMSrmm displays the special cycles format CYCL/00005.