Remove Media Volumes from BRM (RMVMEDBRM)

The Remove Media Volumes from BRM (RMVMEDBRM) command removes a media volume from the BRMS media inventory. A volume is removed because of age, error rate, shipment to another location, and so on.

Note: Media can only be removed if it was previously added using the ADDMEDBRM command. All information about the volume including content and statistics, is deleted when the volume is removed. Also the total number of volumes in BRMS is decremented.

To use this command, you must have the Backup Recovery and Media Services for IBM i licensed program installed.

Parameters

Keyword Description Choices Notes
VOL Volume identifier Character value Required, Positional 1

Volume identifier (VOL)

Specifies the volume identifier of the volume being removed from the BRMS media inventory.

This is a required parameter.

volume-identifier
Specify the identifier of the volume being removed from the media inventory.

Examples

Example 1: Removing a Volume from BRMS

RMVMEDBRM VOL(C00005)

This command removes volume C00005 from the BRMS media inventory.

Error messages

*ESCAPE Messages

BRM1147
Volume &1 not found.
BRM1917
Feature not installed.
BRM1921
Feature not licensed.
BRM4040
Access denied for user &1.
BRM4041
Access denied for user &1.
BRM40A2
BRMS product initialization required.
CPF9800
All CPF98xx messages could be signaled. xx is from 01 to FF.