Moving volumes to loan locations

Volumes are not always kept in the removable media library or in designated storage locations, but are sometimes loaned out or retained by owners outside the library. To keep track of these locations, define a loan location to DFSMSrmm when you add or change volume information. If a volume is stored in a system-managed tape library, DFSMSrmm automatically ejects the volume if you define a loan location.

A loan location is any value that identifies where the volume can be found when it is stored outside your installation's removable media library. A loan location value can be an owner name or user ID, a department name, or an office number. A loan location value can be any value up to eight characters. You can change the loan location for a volume as often as needed.

To specify a loan location for a volume already defined to DFSMSrmm, either:

Enter a value in the Loan Location field of page 2 of the Change Volume Details panel.
or
Use the RMM CHANGEVOLUME subcommand as shown in Figure 1 to request that volume VOL001 is being moved to an office in building 86 with an office number 201EE.
Figure 1. Moving a volume to a loan location
```
RMM CHANGEVOLUME VOL001 LOANLOC(86201EE)
```

Figure 2 shows how to build an executable data set of CHANGEVOLUME commands supplying a loan location for several volumes already defined to DFSMSrmm.

Figure 2. Supplying loan location information for volumes

RMM SEARCHVOLUME VOLUME(full_or_generic_volume_serial)-
     CLIST('RMM CHANGEVOLUME ',' LOANLOC(loan_location)')

where VOLUME is a generic volume serial number, and loan location is a value of one to eight characters.