The first time that you define an optical library or optical disk drive, the corresponding ISMF DEFINE panel requires that you enter all the attributes for that device in the appropriate panel fields based on the name of the library or drive. When you enter all the information, OAM adds a row that contains that information to the library or drive table in the OAM configuration database. An optical library or optical disk drive definition is also added to the specified SCDS in which the DEFINE occurs.

Subsequent definitions of the same optical library or optical disk drive into a new SCDS result in the REDEFINE panel being displayed with all the attributes associated with that device displayed as read in from the library or drive table. The optical library or optical disk drive definition is added to the specified SCDS.

For more detail on defining optical libraries and optical disk drives with ISMF, see Sample ISMF session for an IBM 3995 Optical Library Dataserver.