Hello everyone,

I have the following topic that I don't know how to implement:
BRMS and PTFs are installed on the system. An IBM TS4300 Tape Library is connected. Now, after a backup that runs at night, we would like the tape that was used for the backup to be moved into the I/O slot once the backup is complete. This way, the next morning we only need to open the I/O slot station to remove the tape.

I assume a move policy needs to be created for this.
Has anyone implemented this before and could give me a short guide on what exactly needs to be done to achieve my goal?

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Riccardo Singh
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Hello Riccardo. We do this all the time for our full saves. Yes, you can and should create a move policy and associate it with your media policy. For us, we have a job in the scheduler that will do a MOVMEDBRM to ensure that all tapes in the brms network have then been ejected/moved at a certain time. Another option is you could use the RMVTAPCTG command instead if you wish to eject individual tapes instead. . Hope this helps - Rich

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Rich Malloy
Principal Systems Engineer - IBMi
Cox Automotive
Draper UT
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Original Message:
Sent: Fri September 19, 2025 10:14 AM
From: Riccardo Singh
Subject: Move Tape to I/O Slot Automation with BRMS

Hello everyone,

I have the following topic that I don't know how to implement:
BRMS and PTFs are installed on the system. An IBM TS4300 Tape Library is connected. Now, after a backup that runs at night, we would like the tape that was used for the backup to be moved into the I/O slot once the backup is complete. This way, the next morning we only need to open the I/O slot station to remove the tape.

I assume a move policy needs to be created for this.
Has anyone implemented this before and could give me a short guide on what exactly needs to be done to achieve my goal?

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Riccardo Singh
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Hi Riccardo
When using BRMS, the best method is to do a MOVMEDBRM since you will have an automatic update of the storage location when executing the command; a particularity, you can specify in the MOVMEDBRM command for which site you want to move the volume(s). This can be interesting if you execute the command from a partition that is in a BRMS network.

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Jean-Bernard MALET
CEO/Consultant
BACKUPKEYS
Paris
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Original Message:
Sent: Fri September 19, 2025 10:14 AM
From: Riccardo Singh
Subject: Move Tape to I/O Slot Automation with BRMS

Hello everyone,

I have the following topic that I don't know how to implement:
BRMS and PTFs are installed on the system. An IBM TS4300 Tape Library is connected. Now, after a backup that runs at night, we would like the tape that was used for the backup to be moved into the I/O slot once the backup is complete. This way, the next morning we only need to open the I/O slot station to remove the tape.

I assume a move policy needs to be created for this.
Has anyone implemented this before and could give me a short guide on what exactly needs to be done to achieve my goal?

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Riccardo Singh
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