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Examples

Adding or Removing Volser Series

You must perform this operation whenever the configuration file SERIES records are in any way modified or reordered to:

• Add a new series
• Extend an existing series
• Delete a series
• Reorder the series in the TMC

For example, to add a new series of 100 reels (SYS001 through SYS100) to your TMC, follow these steps:

1. End CA VM:Tape.
2. Edit the VMTAPE CONFIG file and add the following record:

   SERIES SYS001 100 REEL
   

3. Rename the current TMC (as specified on the CMSTMC record) to OLDTMC TMC B:

   rename vmtape tmc b oldtmc tmc b
   

4. Issue a FILEDEF command to define input data from the old TMC to the current TMC:

   filedef currtmc disk oldtmc tmc b
   

5. Run VMTBUILD:

   vmtbuild tmc currtmc
   

   CA VM:Tape responds as follows:

   INITIALIZING THE NEW VOLUME LIBRARY FILE ‘VMTAPE TMC B’ ...
   INITIALIZATION COMPLETE -- 239 RECORDS
   
   PROCESSING INPUT FILE 1 DDNAME=CURRTMC
   241 RECORDS READ -- 3 RECORDS IGNORED
   VOLUME RECORDS: 236 APPLIED AND 0 REJECTED
   DATASET RECORDS: 4 PASSED 0 REJECTED 0 IGNORED
   
   PROCESSING MULTI-VOLUME AND MULTI-DATASET TAPESETS
   
   0 VOLUMES DROPPED FROM MULTI-VOLUME TAPESETS
   3 MULTI-VOLUME TAPESETS
   2 MULTI-DATASET TAPESETS
   FINAL NUMBER OF DATASET RECORDS IS 4