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The IBM document: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectru...n-libvolume-check-storage-volume-into-library
States:
"SEARCHSpecifies whether the server searches the library to find volumes that were not checked in. This parameter is optional. The default is NO."
[ Question 1]
What do they mean by "not checked in" ??? Is that a typo? Do they really mean checked out? Why are we concerned about volumes not checked in if that's what we're trying to do?
Trying to unlock a lock that is not unlocked? I'm completely confused by the wording. Can someone kindly elucidate me on what this really infers.
[ Question 2]
And what in layman's terms is search=yes or no? Or even bulk?
Part of the confusion on my end may lie in the fact that there are two libraries, and it's never clear which one they mean. There's the physical library, i.e. the actual hardware itself. So you can checkout a tape into the Import/Export slot, and that tape is physically no longer in a storage slot and can now be removed from what I consider the library in the conventional sense, ever mind how many different partitions the library may be split up into for different applications., e.g. TSM.
Then there's the library of TSM (maybe a collection or aggregate?) as far as the tapes that it has available, or what is listed in the libvolumes table. I could checkout a tape but not actually export it, so it could still be in a storage slot, but now no longer in libvolumes. That right? I want to say that one of the search options or choices would accomplish that wherein you've checked it out, but not really in the sense that you would if you were going to shelve it or take it off site. Maybe I have it all wrong, but that was my impression.
Anyway, would appreciate some clarification. All lectures welcome.
States:
"SEARCHSpecifies whether the server searches the library to find volumes that were not checked in. This parameter is optional. The default is NO."
[ Question 1]
What do they mean by "not checked in" ??? Is that a typo? Do they really mean checked out? Why are we concerned about volumes not checked in if that's what we're trying to do?
Trying to unlock a lock that is not unlocked? I'm completely confused by the wording. Can someone kindly elucidate me on what this really infers.
[ Question 2]
And what in layman's terms is search=yes or no? Or even bulk?
Part of the confusion on my end may lie in the fact that there are two libraries, and it's never clear which one they mean. There's the physical library, i.e. the actual hardware itself. So you can checkout a tape into the Import/Export slot, and that tape is physically no longer in a storage slot and can now be removed from what I consider the library in the conventional sense, ever mind how many different partitions the library may be split up into for different applications., e.g. TSM.
Then there's the library of TSM (maybe a collection or aggregate?) as far as the tapes that it has available, or what is listed in the libvolumes table. I could checkout a tape but not actually export it, so it could still be in a storage slot, but now no longer in libvolumes. That right? I want to say that one of the search options or choices would accomplish that wherein you've checked it out, but not really in the sense that you would if you were going to shelve it or take it off site. Maybe I have it all wrong, but that was my impression.
Anyway, would appreciate some clarification. All lectures welcome.