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IBM001, IBM002, ... IBM999, and so on). Each tape cartridge must be supplied
with a label before you attempt to use it in a library.
Tip: Although Tivoli Storage Manager allows you to use a volume label (also
known as VOLSER or Volume ID) longer than six characters, we strongly
recommend using a maximum of six alphanumeric characters. This is to
maintain compatibility with other ANSI label systems.
Tapes with external labels on the cartridge can be loaded into the library, either
by opening the door and physically placing them in magazine or cartridge slots or
importing them into the library via the bulk loader or I/O port. Methods of
importing cartridges into a library are specific to the library. Please consult your
documentation for instructions.
Now that the new tapes are in the library, Tivoli Storage Manager must write a
label to them before they can be used. The barcode label on the side of the
cartridge is usually used as the source for the label being written.
There are two methods to label tapes: using the administrative command label
libvolume or using the external dsmlabel command. If you use label libvolume, the
labelling process can also check the tapes in to Tivoli Storage Manager's
inventory. If you choose to use dsmlabel, you must then use checkin libvolume to
check the tapes into inventory.
Once the tapes are checked in, they can be used, either in a scratch pool, or
assigned as private volumes to a particular storage pool.
If a tape already has a label written to it (that is, it has been used before), the
tape can simply be checked in to the library without having to be re-labelled.
In Example 6-18 we loaded 17 new cartridges into our IBM 3582 library. We used
the label libvolume command to label and check the tapes into the library, and
specified the option LABELSource=Barcode to tell the labelling process to use
the barcode as the label.
Example 6-18 Labelling and checking tape into the library
tsm: ATLANTIC>
checkin=scratch
ANS8003I Process number 888 started.
tsm: ATLANTIC>
Process
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label libvolume 3582lib search=yes labelsource=barcode
q pr
Process Description Status
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