The Media report by Volume Serial is the result of running the maintenance
command (STRMNTBRM) or the WRKMEDBRM OUTPUT(*PRINT) SORT (*VOL) command. Choosing
options 1, 2, 3, or 4 from the BRMPRTINV menu can also produce the report,
depending on selection criteria or sequence required.
The purpose of the report is to summarize status and location information
for selected or all volumes in the media library.
The following should be noted about this report:
You can create this report in volume, with creation or expiration date
sequence by using the WRKMEDBRM command.
The WRKMEDBRM command provides multiple parameters to select volumes to
include in the report. The selection criteria for the report are listed first,
including the creation and expiration date ranges.
The Volume list field indicates whether all volumes
in the inventory are included (*NO) or whether specific volumes requested
in a list (*YES) are printed.
Note that some volumes can have dates earlier than the current date but
have not expired. This could be because you have not run the STRMNTBRM command
recently, or the volume is part of volume set with a later expiration, or
because these volumes cannot expire in a remote location.
A summary shows the number of active, expired, requiring initialization,
flagged in error and the total number of volumes in the inventory.
The System ID field shows the system
which wrote the first file to the media. Do not use a volume for active files from more than one system.
A separate Volume Identifier Information section identifies volumes that have a six-character volume serial
and also have a thirty-two-character volume identifier. Volumes
that have a thirty-two-character volume identifier are typically
optical volumes.