Checking in volumes by using a bar code reader
You can save time when you check in volumes by using a bar code reader, if your library has one.
About this task
When you check in a volume, you can specify whether the media labels are read during check-in processing. When label-checking is on, IBM Storage Protect mounts each volume to read the internal label and checks in a volume only if it is correctly labeled. Label-checking can prevent future errors when volumes are used in storage pools, but also increases processing time at check-in.
If a volume has no bar code label, IBM Storage Protect mounts the volumes in a drive and attempts to read the recorded label.
Procedure
To check in volumes by using a bar code reader, issue the CHECKIN LIBVOLUME
command and specify CHECKLABEL=BARCODE. For example, to use the bar code reader
to check in all volumes as scratch volumes in a library that is named TAPELIB, issue the following
command:
checkin libvolume tapelib search=yes status=scratch checklabel=barcode