Re: moving single tape in BRMS

This may not be the best solution, but a company I used to work had this in place for what appears to be the same challenge you face......

We had logical tape sets that physically rotated (daily). When it was time to load another tape set, BRMS needed to know the volume was 1)expired, 2)in the tape library. (This is much easier when you have enough library space for scratch media.) We had a program that cross referenced our little "logical" tape set rotation identifier against the BRMS media master (QA1AMM), field TMCVLT. Bottom line, you pass the tape set parameter, the program reads our own little tape set database for all the rotated volumes, then moves the correct location name into the TMCVLT field for those affected volumes.....boom done! Operators loved it, because it cut down on errors preparing tapes.

Hope this gives you some ideas.....
Bradford Lovelady

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From: Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, February 10, 2010 1:46:25 PM
Subject: Re: moving single tape in BRMS

CHGMEDBRM does allow some stuff but not a storage location.

Change Media using BRM (CHGMEDBRM)



Type choices, press Enter.



Volume identifier . . . . . . . VOL > 000360

Media class . . . . . . . . . . MEDCLS ULTRIUM3

Expiration date . . . . . . . . EXPDATE '02/10/10'

Last moved date . . . . . . . . MOVDATE '02/10/10'

Move policy . . . . . . . . . . MOVPCY *NONE

Creation date . . . . . . . . . CRTDATE '02/10/10'

Secure volume . . . . . . . . . VOLSEC *NO

Slot number . . . . . . . . . . SLOT *NONE

System . . . . . . . . . . . . . SYSNAME APPN.V1K1NG

Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TEXT *NONE



Image catalog . . . . . . . . . IMGCLG *NONE






Pete Massiello wrote:

CHGMEDBRM

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Draper
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:21 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: moving single tape in BRMS

I need to move a single tape in a CL pgm from *HOME to TAP01:

Here's how to do it manually in the MOVMEDBRM interactive but I need to
do it in a CL pgm.

Jerry

Move Media



Type storage location or container to receive volumes.



Storage location . . TAP01 *SAME, F4 for list

Container . . . . . *SAME *SAME, F4 for list



Volume Creation Expiration Move Media
Dup
Opt Serial Expired Date Date Location Date Class
Sts
8 000360 02/10/10 11/01/14 *HOME 02/10/10 ULTRIUM3








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