Re: moving single tape in BRMS

[bll1981 <bll1981@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 






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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
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> I need to move a single tape in a CL pgm from *HOME to TAP01:
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> Here's how to do it manually in the MOVMEDBRM interactive but I need to 
> do it in a CL pgm.
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> Jerry
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>   Type storage location or container to receive volumes. 
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>     Storage location . .   TAP01        *SAME, F4 for list 
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>     Container  . . . . .   *SAME        *SAME, F4 for list 
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>       Volume           Creation Expiration            Move     Media 
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>   Opt Serial   Expired   Date      Date    Location   Date     Class 
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>   8   000360           02/10/10  11/01/14  *HOME      02/10/10 ULTRIUM3 
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