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Status Under review
Workspace IBM Z Software Asset Management
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Created on Dec 22, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

REMIGRATE libraries to ML2

When processing migrated libraries there is an option REMIGRATE which moves back volumes which are to be recalled. This parameter is only working fine if library is recalled from ML1. In this case library is migrated back to ML1 volume.

If recall is from ML2 than library is migrated back to ML1 only. This way it is both filling both ML1 space and takes unnecessary time because remigrating to ML2 would avoid any additional overhead because dataset simply would be reconnected (if dfhsm is setup accordingly). In this case there is only an update to dfhsm MCDS required. 

Remigrating ML2 libraries back to ML1 volume fills up ML1 volumes, potentialy causing issues.

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