Greg, For HSM owned volumes all they have to be is added one time to HSM and HSM maintains the MCT record Backup volume record in the BCDS for them.
If they are tape volumes they generally get added during the backup process at first use from a scratch request for a mount you would see a request for a PRIVAT mount followed by an ARC0120I indicating the volume was added. This would be determined by the use of the SETSYS SELECTVOLUME and SETSYS TAPEDELETION parameters, so if you are using scratch or specific tape requests. The SPILL tapes would be created the same way during the RECYCLE of backup tapes. For DASD backup they would have been added via the ADDVOL command one time so HSM could use them. They would also have an MCT record in the BCDS so once added HSM knows about them. Hope this helps Max Smith DFSMS Development. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
