DFSMSrmm records the starting location for a volume when the volume is initially defined to DFSMSrmm or when volume information is changed. This starting location is known to DFSMSrmm as a home location. Home is the location where volumes start from and are returned to when the identified retention and movement actions have been completed. You can use system-managed libraries, storage locations, and SHELF as home locations. A non-system-managed library identified as SHELF can only be used as a home location and not as a target location in a vital record specification. SHELF can be used as a target location when a volume is moved by issuing a command.

You can give any system-managed library or storage location as a target destination for a volume move.

You can also use the DFSMSrmm-reserved location name CURRENT to avoid moving a volume from its current location.