Enrolling Media into BRMS for Use by a Stand-Alone Tape or Optical Device

Use the following procedure to enroll media for use by the stand-alone tape device that is attached to your system:

1. Insert the pre-initialized volume into your tape device. If your volumes are not initialized, see Setting Up Your Media Management Operation for instructions on how to do so before enrolling the volumes into BRMS.
2. Type WRKMEDBRM at a command line to get to the Work with Media display.
3. At the Work with Media display, type a 1 in the Option column and then type the name of your volume in the Volume Serial column. Press Enter. This takes you to the Add Media to BRM (ADDMEDBRM) display.
   Note:

   If you encounter a message saying Cannot allocate device TAPxx or Request to optical device OPTxx failed., then you need to vary on the device. You can do that by taking option 8 (Work with status) from the Work with Devices (WRKDEVBRM) display.
4. Type the name of the appropriate media class in the Media Class field and press Enter. Be sure to enroll four volumes in the SAVSYS media class for the *SYSTEM backup, or two volumes into the SAVSYS media class for the *SYSGRP backup, and two into the media class assigned by your system policy for the *BKUGRP backup.
5. You have now returned to the Add Media to BRM display. Press F9 to prompt the additional parameters. Then press Enter again to enroll the media.
6. Repeat steps 4 through 6 for each volume.