rmfbvol

Parameters

-dev storage_image_ID

(Optional) The storage image ID, which includes manufacturer, machine type, and serial number. The storage image ID is required if you do not specify a fully qualified volume ID for all logical volumes, do not set the devid variable in your profile or through the setenv command, and the HMC is aware of more than one storage image. Using the -dev parameter temporarily overrides any defined value for devid for the current command.

-quiet

(Optional) Turns off the volume removal confirmation prompt for this command.

-safe

(Optional) Runs a check to see whether the specified volumes are assigned to any non-default volume groups. If any volumes are still assigned to a user-defined volume group, the rmfbvol command fails without deleting any volumes. During this occurrence, messages are provided which list the volumes that are still assigned to a user-defined volume group.

Notes:

• If there is any reason that the system cannot run the check, the rmfbvol command fails and no volumes are deleted.
• The -safe and -force parameters cannot be specified at the same time.

-force

(Optional) Deletes specified volumes without checking to see whether the volumes are in use. The phrase in use means that the volume is participating in a Copy Services relationship or is in a z/OS path group. If multiple volumes are specified and some are in use and some are not, the ones not in use can be deleted.

Note: The -safe and -force parameters cannot be specified at the same time.

Volume_ID ... | -

(Required) An array of one or more fixed block volume IDs to be removed. This parameter also accepts a fully qualified volume ID, which includes the storage image ID, or a shortened version without the storage image ID if the -dev parameter is specified.

Example of -dev parameter use

If you specify the -dev parameter, you can use the shortened version of the Volume_ID parameter as follows:

dscli> rmfbvol -dev IBM.2107-75FA120 0100-010F 0180-018F 0120

If you do not specify the -dev parameter and you specify the Volume_ID variable, you must use the fully qualified version of the volume ID as follows:

dscli> rmfbvol  IBM.2107-75FA120/0100-010F 0180-018F 0120

The volume ID is a 32 bit number that can be represented as four hexadecimal digits in the form of XYZZ where:

X

The address group, 0–F.

XY

The logical subsystem number, 00 - FE.

ZZ

The volume number, 00 - FF.

To specify a range of volume IDs, separate the volume IDs with a hyphen.

You must separate multiple volume IDs or ranges of volume IDs with a blank space between each ID or range of IDs.

The ellipsis (...) indicates that, optionally, you can specify multiple values. If you use the dash (-), the specified value is read from standard input. You cannot use the dash (-) while you are in the DS CLI interactive command mode.