DFSMSrmm manages your removable media resources,
including tape cartridges and reels. It provides the following functions:
- Library Management
- You can create tape libraries, or collections of tape media
associated with tape drives, to balance the work of your tape drives
and help the operators that use them.
DFSMSrmm can manage
the following devices:
- A removable media library, which incorporates all other libraries,
such as:
- Non-system-managed or traditional tape libraries, including automated
libraries such as a library under Basic Tape Library Support (BTLS)
control.
- Shelf Management
- DFSMSrmm groups information about removable media by
shelves into a central online inventory, and keeps track of the volumes
residing on those shelves. DFSMSrmm can manage the shelf space that you
define in your removable media library and in your storage locations.
- Volume management
- DFSMSrmm manages the movement and retention of tape volumes throughout
their life cycle.
- Data set management
- DFSMSrmm records information about the data sets on tape
volumes. DFSMSrmm uses the data set information to validate volumes and
to control the retention and movement of those data sets.
Related reading: For more information,
see Managing Removable Media with DFSMSrmm.
z/OS DFSMS Introduction
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