Maintaining Your Removable Media Inventory

DFSMSrmm provides several utilities you can use to keep the information in your tape library current and to perform various tasks related to maintaining your tape media. Run these utilities using your existing scheduling facilities, such as the IBM® Tivoli® Workload Scheduler for z/OS®, so you can choose the best time and sequence to perform regularly required tasks.

DFSMSrmm utilities perform the following tasks:

Maintain the integrity of the DFSMSrmm control data set. You can verify the records in the control data set, back up the data set, and restore it.
Control and track volumes and data sets that are managed by vital record specifications.
Manage the release of volumes that have reached their expiration date and that are no longer retained by vital record specifications.
Define and verify the volume movements between your library and storage locations.
Erase and initialize volumes.