CA TLMS imposes no restriction on the order in which you place the tapes in the library. You may store your tapes sequentially by volume serial number or group them by application. You may even store some of the tapes sequentially and group the rest of them by application. Those stored by application should normally be the cyclic, highly repetitive volumes and these volumes should have volume serial numbers that segregate them from the rest of the volumes.
If you still process a few second-generation tapes with nonstandard labels, you might also want to segregate them.
Your off-site storage facilities can help determine the best organization for your tape library. If many volumes are kept off site and your library filing system is strictly by volume serial number, there will be empty slots in the library resulting in wasted space. If the majority of the volumes stored off site belong to specific applications, these volumes could be stored in the library by application. This would reduce large numbers of unused tape slots for volumes that are stored elsewhere for long periods.
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