HSM system commands

This document contains useful day-to-day HSM system commands

QUERY commands

Description	Command
List out running processes and the statuses of the HSM components	QUERY ACTIVE
List out all waiting for resource commands	QUERY WAITING
List out what is happening with HSM's automatic functions	QUERY AUTOPROGRESS
List out the users who are running active or queued commands	QUERY USER
Query active processes	QUERY PROCESS
List out the name of the HSM started task	QUERY IMAGE
List out all automatic processes running at this time	QUERY AUTOP
List out all ABARS parameters	QUERY ABARS
List out all aggregate recovery volumes	QUERY ARPOOL
List out all the recall pools	QUERY POOL
List out all current backup parameters	QUERY BACKUP
List out CDS backup information	QUERY CDSV
List out information about the CDS files	QUERY CDS
List out ML2 volumes, including info about volumes that are currently in use	QUERY ML2
List out all HSM information for the specified dataset	QUERY DATASETNAME(dataset.name)
List out space information for a specified volume	QUERY SPACE(volume_here)
List out the HSM startup parameters	QUERY STAR
List out all files that are excluded from migration by SETMIG commands	QUERY RETAIN
List out the CSA or memory limit parameters for HSM	QUERY CSALIMITS
List out DFHSM settings	QUERY SETSYS

HOLD, RELEASE and CANCEL commands

Description	Command
Hold backup. Optionally (AUTO DCCOMMAND(TAPE)	HOLD BACKUP
Hold recall. Optionally (TAPE)	HOLD RECALL
Hold migration	HOLD MIGRATION
Hold fast replication recover. Optionally (TAPE)	HOLD FRRECOV
Hold dump	HOLD DUMP
Hold aggregate backup	HOLD ABACKUP
Hold aggregate recovery	HOLD ARECOVER
Hold tape recycling	HOLD RECYCLE
Hold tape copy	HOLD TAPECOPY
Hold tape replication	HOLD TAPEREPL
Hold common recall queue (CRQ)	HOLD COMMONQUEUE
Hold recover. Optionally (TAPEDATASET)	HOLD RECOVER
Release function	RELEASE function_name
Cancel request	CANCEL REQUEST(request_number)
Cancel all user processes	CANCEL USER(userid)