Benefits

The database collects data regarding all data sets on all volumes in the z/OS® environment (except for volumes that you have excluded) so that you can perform the following operations:

• View comprehensive summary reports regarding general trends or specific low-level details.
• Identify exception conditions regarding data sets throughout the environment.
• Select data sets from a workspace view and initiate Storage Toolkit action commands against them.
• Obtain an installation-wide view of data set space utilization, exceptional conditions, and summary statistics.
• Quickly identify resources that require attention, such as data sets that have excessive unused space, extents, or CA/CI splits.
• Avoid the use of utility programs that have limited ability to aggregate and display data, such as IEHLIST.

The Dataset Group feature versus the Dataset Attributes feature clarifies the strengths of this feature.