Procedures for Virtual and Physical Volume Maintenance when Using the IMPORT/EXPORT Feature
Run TLERPT23 to review the inventory of exported virtual tapes and the container volumes they reside on. TLERPT23 will also build "UPV volser SCRATCH=YES" control statements for TLMSINQR to expire physical tapes when all virtual volumes stacked upon them have been imported or scratched.
Run TLMSINQR to process with the control statements created by TLERPT23 only for those physical volumes with all virtual volumes in scratch status.
Run your daily CA TLMS TLMSTRS job to manage virtual volumes along with normal tapes.
Run TLERPT21 to identify the virtual volumes to be exported. These volumes have been identified by TLMSTRS because they have been scheduled for movement and their location is not in an ATL. TLERPT21 will build the CTSSYNC control statements to eject the physical tapes in an ATL and export the virtual tapes.
Run CTSSYNC to do the ejects and/or exports.
Run TLERPT22 to build the CTSSYNC control statements to do the IMPORT for the individual container volumes returned from an off-site location.
Run CTSSYNC using the control statements from TLERPT22.
