Move Policies

The move policy determines the sequence and duration of storage retention and movement for media and containers. Move policies also indicate how you want BRMS to verify media movement activities.

Use move policies to create move patterns for volumes that contain active media. Each move policy is tied to a media policy which, in its turn, is tied to a save item such as a library or control group. You can initiate the move pattern by using either the Move Media using BRM (MOVMEDBRM) or the Start Maintenance using BRM (STRMNTBRM) command. You can process both of these commands automatically by using a job scheduler.

BRMS comes with a default move policy called OFFSITE. The OFFSITE policy tracks the movement of media to the VAULT location, where it remains until expiration (*EXP). You can change the OFFSITE move policy and can also create additional move policies to track a variety of move patterns.

To create, change or delete a move policy, take the following steps:

1. Type WRKPCYBRM at a command line and press Enter. This takes you to the Work with Move Policy display.
2. To create a move policy, type a 1 (Create) in the Opt field and specify a name for the new policy in the Policy field. Then press Enter.

                               Work with Move Policies                  RCHAS400   
                                                                                   
    Position to . . . . . .               Starting characters                      
                                                                                   
    Type options, press Enter.                                                     
      1=Create   2=Change   3=Copy   4=Delete   5=Display                          
                                                                                   
    Opt    Policy        Text                                                      
     1     PAYROLL                                                                 
           OFFSITE       Entry created by BRM configuration                        
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
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    F3=Exit    F5=Refresh    F12=Cancel                                            

3. This example creates a move policy that is called PAYROLL. This move policy governs the movement of your volume used to save payroll information.

                                  Create Move Policy                    RCHASYUM   
                                                                                   
    Move policy  . . . . . . . . . .  PAYROLL                                      
    Home location  . . . . . . . . .  *SYSPCY      Name, *SYSPCY, *ORIGIN, F4 list 
    Use container  . . . . . . . . .  *NO          *YES, *NO                       
    Verify moves . . . . . . . . . .  *YES         *YES, *NO                       
    Calendar for working days  . . .  *ALLDAYS     Name, *ALLDAYS, F4 for list     
    Calendar for move days . . . . .  *ALLDAYS     Name, *ALLDAYS, F4 for list     
    Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Payroll move policy                          
                                                                                   
    Type choices, press Enter.                                                     
                                                                                   
      Seq    Location      Duration    Container Action                            
                                                                                   
       10    COMPROOM      5                                                       
       20    VAULT         *EXP                                                    
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
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    F3=Exit    F4=Prompt    F5=Refresh    F12=Cancel                               
                                                                                   

4. To set up a move pattern for this volume, take the following steps:
   1. In the Seq field, specify the order in which you want BRMS to move the media to this location.
   2. In the Location field, indicate the name of the location to which you want BRMS to move the media.
   3. In the Duration field, indicate the length of time you want to store the media in that location. Possible values for this field include number of days, a specific date, *EXP (until expiration), *PERM (permanent), and file groups. You can find more information about file groups later in this section.

      The PAYROLL move policy instructs BRMS to move the media from home location to the COMPROOM, where it exists for 5 days; then move it to the VAULT, where it remains until it expires. After the media expires, the volumes are returned to the home location.

   4. In the Container Action field, you may decide to have your container open, close or do nothing when it reaches the specified location. The valid values are *OPEN, *CLOSE and *NONE. This field is only active and available for input when the Use container field is set to *YES.
   5. After you design the move pattern, you need to attend to the remaining parameters on the move policy. Following are brief summaries of the key fields that remain on the Create Move Policy display:
      • The Home location parameter specifies the location where BRMS returns media after its move cycle completes. Typically, this is your on site media inventory location. The default value for this parameter is *SYSPCY, which instructs BRMS to look at the system policy for the home location. The default home location in the system policy is *HOME, which you can change if needed.

        In addition, you can now use a new value (*ORIGIN) that was created especially for the move process. *ORIGIN instructs BRMS to return expired volumes backup to the location at which the backup occurred. You can also press F4 to select from a list of different locations.

      • In the Verify moves field, specify whether you want BRMS to verify media movement activities or whether you want to perform this task yourself. The default value for this field is *YES, which means that you want to verify media movement yourself. BRMS supplies you with the Verify Media Movement display, which assists you in determining whether the move schedule created in the move policy completed successfully. You can access the Verify Media Moves display from the Move Management menu. *NO means that BRMS bypasses move verification and updates location information immediately. It is recommended that you use the default value (*YES), especially if you use media libraries.
      • Use the Calendar for working days parameter to specify which days you want to use to calculate the amount of time that media stays at each location.
      • Use the Calendar for move days parameter to specify the days of week that you can move media from one location to another.
   6. After you review and change the remaining parameters as needed, press Enter to store the move policy with BRMS.
   7. Then press Enter to apply your changes.