performance. And with more volumes, you can easily remove some from one
pool and assign to another if your requirements change during processing
(temporarily or permanently).
Example 6-16 shows the commands to define and query volumes.
Example 6-16 Defining volumes to the DISKDATA storage pool
tsm: ATLANTIC>d
formatsize=2048 wait=no
ANR2491I Volume Creation Process starting for /tsm/stg/diskdata/ddvol_01.dsm,
Process Id 16.
ANS8003I Process number 16 started.
tsm: ATLANTIC>
formatsize=2048 wait=no
ANR2491I Volume Creation Process starting for /tsm/stg/diskdata/ddvol_02.dsm,
Process Id 17.
ANS8003I Process number 17 started.
tsm: ATLANTIC>
formatsize=2048 wait=no
...
tsm: ATLANTIC>
formatsize=2048 wait=no
...
tsm: ATLANTIC>
formatsize=2048 wait=no
...
tsm: ATLANTIC>
formatsize=2048 wait=no
ANR0984I Process 21 for DEFINE VOLUME started in the FOREGROUND at 11:33:53.
ANR2206I Volume /tsm/stg/diskdata/ddvol_06.dsm defined in storage pool DISKDATA
(device class DISK).
ANR0986I Process 21 for DEFINE VOLUME running in the FOREGROUND processed 1
items for a total of 2,147,483,648 bytes
with a completion state of SUCCESS at 11:37:19.
tsm: ATLANTIC>
Volume Name
------------------
/tsm/stg/diskdata-
/ddvol_01.dsm
/tsm/stg/diskdata-
/ddvol_02.dsm
/tsm/stg/diskdata-
/ddvol_03.dsm
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efine volume diskdata /tsm/stg/diskdata/ddvol_01.dsm
define volume diskdata /tsm/stg/diskdata/ddvol_02.dsm
define volume diskdata /tsm/stg/diskdata/ddvol_03.dsm
define volume diskdata /tsm/stg/diskdata/ddvol_04.dsm
define volume diskdata /tsm/stg/diskdata/ddvol_05.dsm
define volume diskdata /tsm/stg/diskdata/ddvol_06.dsm
s
q vol stg=diskdata
Storage
Device
Pool Name
Class Name Capacity
---------- ---------- ---------
DISKDATA
DISK
DISKDATA
DISK
DISKDATA
DISK
Estimated
Pct
Volume
Util
Status
----- --------
2,048.0
0.0 On-Line
2,048.0
0.0 On-Line
2,048.0
0.0 On-Line