Monitoring and maintaining tape volumes

The ISMF Volume function assists in the maintenance and verification of the tape volumes within the automated and manual tape library through the use of the Mountable Tape Volume Application available from the Tape Library application Selection panel.

Using the Mountable Tape Volume Application, storage administrators can use line operators or ISMF commands to perform inventory tasks against tape libraries and the library-resident volumes residing in them. These functions can be performed using the Mountable Tape Volume Application:

AUDIT a volume, a list of volumes, or a tape library.
ALTER the use attribute, storage group, shelf location, or owner information of a volume or list of volumes.
EJECT a single tape volume (for information on using the EJECT line operator, see Ejecting a volume from a tape library).

Note: If the library in which the volume resides supports outboard policy management, the assigned storage class name, management class name, and data class name are not maintained in the tape configuration database, nor are they displayed through the mountable tape volume application. Use the DISPLAY SMS, VOLUME command or the LCS external services QVR function to obtain this information.