Enrolling Media into BRMS for use by a Tape or Optical Media Library

Use the following procedure to enroll media for use by the media library that is attached to your system:

1. Ensure that four pre-initialized volumes are available in your tape library. If your volumes are not initialized, see Setting Up Your Media Management Operation for instruction on how to do so before enrolling the volumes into BRMS.
2. Type WRKMLBBRM at a command line to get to the Work with Media Libraries display.
3. Type an 8 (Work with MLB media) next to the name of the media library device you want to work with and press Enter. This takes you to the Work with Media Library Media display.
4. At this display, press Enter three times to work with current inventory of the media library. Place a 1 (Add MLB media) next to the volume you want to enroll and press Enter. This takes you to the Add MLB media to BRM display.
   Note:

   If you encounter a message saying Cannot allocate device TAPMLBxx or Request to optical device OPTMLBxx failed., then you need to vary on the device. You can do that by using the Work with Media Library Status (WRKMLBSTS) command.
5. At the Add MLB media to BRM display, type in the name of the appropriate media class. Be sure to enroll 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. Then press Enter. This returns you to the Add Media Library Media to BRM display.
6. At the Add Media Library Media to BRM display, press Enter twice.
7. Repeat steps 5 through 7 for each volume.
   Note:

   When tape volumes are physically inserted into the tape library, they must already have a volume identifier assigned to the volume. This is a requirement of the tape media library, not BRMS. Optical media libraries do not have this requirement.