Managing Container Movement

You must assign move policies to containers. Use the move policy display to specify container use and container movement. After creating a container, go to the move policy that you want to use for that container, and change the Use container parameter to *YES. To review or change 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. Type a 1 (Change) in front of the policy you want to work with and press Enter.

                                  Change Move Policy                    RCHASYUM   
                                                                                   
    Move policy  . . . . . . . . . :  OFFSITE                                      
    Home location  . . . . . . . . .  *SYSPCY      Name, *SYSPCY, *ORIGIN, F4 list 
    Use container  . . . . . . . . .  *YES         *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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Entry created by BRM configuration           
                                                                                   
    Type choices, press Enter.                                                     
                                                                                   
      Seq    Location      Duration    Container Action                            
                                                                                   
       10    VAULT         *EXP        *NONE                                       
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                                   
                                                                            Bottom 
                                                                                   
    F3=Exit    F4=Prompt    F5=Refresh    F12=Cancel                               
                  

3. To instruct BRMS to track container use and movement, change the value in the Use container field to *YES.
4. Make any additional changes as needed.
5. Press Enter to save and exit.

All of the volumes in a container must have the same move policy. BRMS will not process a request to hold volumes with different move policies in the same container.

You can *OPEN or *CLOSE your containers through movement by setting the Container Action column for each location.

If you indicated *YES in the Verify moves field in the move policy, BRMS links the volume to the container at verification time. For non-verified moves, the link between volumes and container is automatic when you issue the Move Media using BRM (MOVMEDBRM) command. You can find more information about the MOVMEDBRM command later in this chapter.

When tracking media movement to containers, BRMS selects the next available container. This container supports the appropriate media class. It also selects the container with the ID that is next in ascending alphabetical sequence. Whenever possible, BRMS uses the container that is already at the location from which the media is moving.

For example, suppose that you have two containers that are members of the QIC120 container class and contain 10 QIC120 format tapes. The container labels are QICAA and QICAB. BRMS selects QICAA over QICAB if both are available. However, assume that you have another container class that holds 20 QIC120 cartridges (QIC120BIG), and that a container (QICAC) in this class is available. Even if the save uses 20 cartridges and QICAC seems more appropriate, BRMS still selects QICAA first.