Switching volumes to installation defined storage locations

You can switch volumes from built-in storage locations to the installation defined storage locations without moving the volumes.

Make sure you have defined the LOCDEF command in parmlib to identify the target installation defined storage location and its attributes as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1. Identifying an installation defined storage location

LOCDEF LOCATION(REMOTE) TYPE(STORAGE) MEDIANAME(CART) -
   MANAGEMENTTYPE(BINS)

Issue the RMM CHANGEVOLUME subcommand with the BIN operand to assign bin numbers for the volumes you are switching from the built-in storage location to the installation defined storage location. For example, the volume MIKE01 resides in the built-in storage location REMOTE in bin number 000010. To switch the volume to the installation defined storage location REMOTE, issue:

RMM CHANGEVOLUME MIKE01 LOCATION(REMOTE) BIN(000010) CONFIRMMOVE

The volume is allocated to the bin number in the installation defined storage location and the original bin number in built-in location REMOTE is empty. To move all the volumes you can use the data in the report extract file to generate the RMM CHANGEVOLUME subcommands.

DFSMSrmm provides sample JCL as EDGJCVB in SAMPLIB. You can use this sample to switch the storage location name to any installation defined storage location name while keeping the assigned shelf location number the same. Substitute the LOCATION(REMOTE) with LOCATION(storage_locname) you choose.