GETVOLUME subcommand

You use the RMM GETVOLUME subcommand to obtain a volume from DFSMSrmm.

The DFSMSrmm API returns information when:

The GETVOLUME request was successful. The DFSMSrmm API returns volume information and owner information as shown in Figure 1.
When an error occurs, and then only for specific return and reason code combinations described in Messages and message variables structured field introducers and Structured field introducers for return and reason codes.

Figure 1. Structured field introducers for GETVOLUME with OUTPUT=FIELDS

<Begin VOLUME group>
  <Begin MESSAGE group>
    <MSGN - message number           : 8  , character:         >
    <VOL  - volume serial            : 6  , character:         >
    <OWN  - owner                    : 8  , character:         >
  <End MESSAGE group>
<End VOLUME group>