ISMF library management role within OAM

Use the Interactive Storage Management Facility (ISMF) to integrate OAM into system-managed storage. Use the Library Management application of ISMF, which interacts with DB2, to define optical disk drives and libraries into the OAM configuration database. Use the Storage Group application of ISMF, which interacts with SMS, to define the same drives and libraries into the specified SCDS and make them a part of the SMS configuration when that SCDS is activated.

For object tapes, other information supplied by the SETOAM statement of the CBROAMxx PARMLIB member can supplement or override the ISMF information assigned to the Object or Object Backup storage group.

Note: OAM identifies tape volumes eligible for reading and writing objects through information provided by the Tape Volume Table in the OAM configuration database and by the Object or Object Backup storage group to which the volume is assigned. Therefore, definition of tape libraries and tape drives to the OAM configuration database through the use of ISMF is not required for object tapes. However, tape libraries are defined to an SCDS and to the tape configuration database. Tape drives are dynamically allocated by the system as needed to satisfy requests to read or write objects.

Upon activation of an SCDS having optical libraries and optical disk drives defined, as well as tape drives available for allocation as needed, an operator on any console within an SMS complex can issue commands targeted for any library or drive within the configuration.