Values on the SMS volume status display panel

The SMS Volume Status Display panel shows status information.

Physical Volume Status

This field shows the current SMS status of, and the amount of free space on, the volume. The volume status can be:

INITIAL: The volume has been defined to a storage group, but all the data sets are not yet under SMS control.
CONVERTED: The volume is fully converted to SMS.
NONSMS: The volume is not under SMS control.
UNKNOWN: The status of the volume is not known.

MB-free

This is the total number of free megabytes belonging to the volume.

% Free

This is the percentage of free volume space.

Requirement: If you do not specify 'ACTIVE' in the CDS Name field, then the Physical Volume Status, MB-free, % Free and MVS Vol Status fields display dashes. The space information only exists for a volume if the volume has at least one SMS-managed data set allocated on it.

SMS Vol Status

This field shows the relationship between the volume and SMS. The six possible relationships are:

DISALL: SMS does not permit data sets on this volume to be accessed.
DISNEW: SMS does not permit the allocation of new data sets on this volume.
ENABLE: SMS permits access to data sets on this volume.
NOTCON: SMS does not attempt to access this volume.
QUIALL: SMS does not schedule any more jobs that access data sets on this volume.
QUINEW: SMS does not schedule any jobs that create new data sets on this volume.

MVS Vol Status

This column shows relationships between MVS and the volume whose status is being displayed. Possible relationships are:

BOXED: A status encountered when an application cannot disconnect from a malfunctioning volume. BOXED means that MVS is simulating I/O errors in response to the application's I/O request.
NOTREADY: The volume cannot send nor receive I/O now.
OFFLINE: I/O is not possible because the storage management subsystem cannot find the address where the volume's VOLSER is mounted.
ONLINE: The volume is physically connected to MVS; I/O can proceed.
PENDOFF: (Pending Offline) MVS varies the volume offline as soon as persons currently accessing data sets on it have disconnected from it.