0000

Null category

Null category

This pseudo-category is used in certain library commands to specify that the category that is already associated with the volume is to be used by default, or that no category is specified. Use of the null category does not affect the volume’s order within the category to which it is assigned.

No volumes are associated with this category.

0001

DFSMS

CST

Indicates scratch MEDIA1. MEDIA1 is a standard-capacity cartridge system tape.

0002

DFSMS

ECCST

Indicates scratch MEDIA2. MEDIA2 is an enhanced-capacity cartridge system tape.

0003

DFSMS

HPCT

Indicates scratch MEDIA3. MEDIA3 is the IBM 3590 Extended High-Performance Cartridge Tape.

0004

DFSMS

EHPCT

Indicates scratch MEDIA4. MEDIA4 is the IBM 3590 Extended High-Performance Cartridge Tape.

0005

DFSMS

ETC

Indicates scratch MEDIA5. MEDIA5 is the IBM 3592 tape cartridge.

0006

DFSMS

EWTC

Indicates scratch MEDIA6. MEDIA6 is the IBM 3592 tape cartridge Write Once, Read Many (WORM).

0007

DFSMS

EETC

Indicates scratch MEDIA7. MEDIA7 is the IBM 3592 tape cartridge Economy.

0008

DFSMS

EEWTC

Indicates scratch MEDIA8. MEDIA8 is the IBM 3592 tape cartridge Economy WORM.

0009

DFSMS

EXTC

Indicates scratch MEDIA9. MEDIA9 is the IBM 3592 tape cartridge Extended.

000A

DFSMS

EXWTC

Indicates scratch MEDIA10. MEDIA10 is the IBM 3592 tape cartridge Extended WORM.

000B

DFSMS

EATC

Indicates scratch MEDIA11. MEDIA11 is the IBM 3592 tape cartridge Advanced.

000C

DFSMS

EAWTC

Indicates scratch MEDIA12. MEDIA12 is the IBM 3592 tape cartridge Advanced WORM.

000D

 

DFSMS

EAETC

Indicates scratch MEDIA13. MEDIA13 is the IBM 3592 tape cartridge Advanced Economy.

000E

DFSMS

N/A

Indicates an error volume. Volumes in this category are scratch volumes for which the software detected an error during processing.

000F

DFSMS

N/A

Indicates a private volume. Volumes in this category contain user data or are assigned to a user.

0010 - 007F

DFSMS

N/A

Reserved. These volume categories can be used for library partitioning.

0080

DFSMS/VM including VSE guest

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VM category SCRATCH0.

0081

DFSMS/VM including VSE guest

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VM category SCRATCH1.

0082

DFSMS/VM including VSE guest

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VM category SCRATCH2.

0083

DFSMS/VM including VSE guest

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VM category SCRATCH3.

0084

DFSMS/VM including VSE guest

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VM category SCRATCH4.

0085

DFSMS/VM including VSE guest

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VM category SCRATCH5.

0086

DFSMS/VM including VSE guest

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VM category SCRATCH6.

0087

DFSMS/VM including VSE guest

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VM category SCRATCH7.

0088

DFSMS/VM including VSE guest

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VM category SCRATCH8.

0089

DFSMS/VM including VSE guest

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VM category SCRATCH9.

008A

DFSMS/VM including VSE guest

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VM category SCRATCHA.

008B

DFSMS/VM including VSE guest

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VM category SCRATCHB.

008C

DFSMS/VM including VSE guest

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VM category SCRATCHC.

008D

DFSMS/VM including VSE guest

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VM category SCRATCHD.

008E

DFSMS/VM including VSE guest

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VM category SCRATCHE.

008F

DFSMS/VM including VSE guest

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VM category SCRATCHF.

0090 - 009F

N/A

N/A

Not assigned.

00A0

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH00.

00A1

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH01.

00A2

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH02.

00A3

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH03.

00A4

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH04.

00A5

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH05.

00A6

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH06.

00A7

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH07.

00A8

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH08.

00A9

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH09.

00AA

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH10.

00AB

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH11.

00AC

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH12.

00AD

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH13.

00AE

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH14.

00AF

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH15.

00B0

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH16.

00B1

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH17.

00B2

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH18.

00B3

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH19.

00B4

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH20.

00B5

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH21.

00B6

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH22.

00B7

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH23.

00B8

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH24.

00B9

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH25.

00BA

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH26.

00BB

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH27.

00BC

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH28.

00BD

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH29.

00BE

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH30.

00BF

Native z/VSE

N/A

Indicates that the volume belongs to the VSE category SCRATCH31.

00C0 - 00FF

N/A

N/A

Not used.

0100

IBM OS/400® (MLDD)

N/A

Indicates that the volume has been assigned to category *SHARE400. Volumes in this category can be shared with all attached IBM System i® and AS/400 systems.

0101

OS/400 (MLDD)

N/A

Indicates that the volume has been assigned to category *NOSHARE. Volumes in this category can be accessed only by the OS/400 system that assigned it to the category.

0102 - 012B

N/A

N/A

No assignment to a specific host system. These categories can be dynamically assigned by the Library Manager at the request of a host.

012C

Tivoli Storage Manager for AIX

N/A

Indicates a private volume. Volumes in this category are managed by Tivoli Storage Manager.

012D

Tivoli Storage Manager for AIX

N/A

Indicates an IBM 3490 scratch volume. Volumes in this category are managed by Tivoli Storage Manager.

012E

Tivoli Storage Manager for AIX

N/A

Indicates an IBM 3590 scratch volume. Volumes in this category are managed by Tivoli Storage Manager.

012F - 0FF1

N/A

N/A

No assignment to a specific host system. These categories can be dynamically assigned by the Library Manager at the request of a host.

0FF2

Basic Tape Library Support (BTLS)

N/A

Indicates a scratch volume. Volumes in this category belong to the optional scratch pool SCRTCH2.

0FF3

BTLS

N/A

Indicates a scratch volume. Volumes in this category belong to the optional scratch pool SCRTCH3.

0FF4

BTLS

N/A

Indicates a scratch volume. Volumes in this category belong to the optional scratch pool SCRTCH4.

0FF5

BTLS

N/A

Indicates a scratch volume. Volumes in this category belong to the optional scratch pool SCRTCH5.

0FF6

BTLS

N/A

Indicates a scratch volume. Volumes in this category belong to the optional scratch pool SCRTCH6.

0FF7

BTLS

N/A

Indicates a scratch volume. Volumes in this category belong to the optional scratch pool SCRTCH7.

0FF8

BTLS

N/A

Indicates a scratch volume. Volumes in this category belong to the optional scratch pool SCRTCH8.

0FF9 - 0FFE

N/A

N/A

No assignment to a specific host system. These categories can be dynamically assigned by the Library Manager at the request of a host.

0FFF

BTLS

N/A

Indicates a scratch volume. Volumes in this category belong to the default scratch pool used by BTLS.

Tip: If you are planning to change to DFSMS, you must use this default scratch category only.

1000 - EFFF

N/A

N/A

No assignment to a specific host system. These categories can be dynamically assigned by the Library Manager at the request of a host.

F000 - F00D

N/A

N/A

Reserved for future use.

F00E

BTLS

N/A

Indicates a volume in error. Volumes are assigned to the error category during unmount if the volume serial specified for unmount does not match the external label of the volume being unmounted.

F00F - FEFF

N/A

N/A

Reserved for future use.

FF00

All

N/A

Insert category.

When a tape volume is added to an automated tape library, the library reads the external label on the volume, creates an inventory entry for the volume, and assigns the volume to the insert category. This category can be updated by operator interaction through Librarian Workstation Support.

FF01

VTS (VTS) and IBM TS7700

N/A

Stacked Volume Insert category for a VTS and TS7700.

A volume is set to this category when its volume serial number is in the range that is specified for stacked volumes for any VTS library partition.

FF02

VTS

N/A

Stacked Volume Scratch category 0 for a VTS and TS7700.

This category is reserved for future use for scratch stacked volumes.

FF03

VTS

N/A

Stacked Volume Scratch category 1 for a VTS and TS7700.

This category is used by the VTS for its scratch stacked volumes. This category is not used if the Licensed Internal Code (LIC) is 527 or later.

FF04

VTS and TS7700

N/A

Stacked Volume Private category for a VTS and TS7700.

This category includes both scratch and private volumes (since VTS LIC level 527).

FF05

VTS and TS7700

N/A

Stacked Volume disaster recovery category for a VTS and TS7700.

A volume is set to this category when its volume serial number is in the range that is specified for stacked volumes for any VTS library partition and the Library Manager is in disaster recovery mode.

FF06

VTS and TS7700

N/A

This category is used by the VTS as a temporary category for disaster recovery. After a stacked volume in category FF05 is processed, it is put into this category.

This category is also used by the Product Field Engineering (PFE) tool called “movedata” as a temporary category.

FF07

VTS and TS7700

N/A

This category is reserved for future hardware functions.

FF08

VTS

N/A

This category is used by the VTS to indicate that a Read-Only-Recovery Stacked Volume with active data cannot be recovered.

FF09

TS7700

N/A

Stacked Volume Copy Export category for TS7700. This category is used by the TS7700 as a category to represent which physical stacked volumes are being copy exported or have already been copy exported as part of a program initiated copy export operation.

FF0A

TS7700

N/A

Stacked Volume Copy Export Hold category for TS7700. This category is used by the TS7700 as a category to represent which physical stacked volumes have been moved to the copy export hold state as part of a program initiated copy export operation.

FF0B - FF0F

N/A

N/A

Reserved for future hardware functions.

FF10

Library Manager

N/A

Convenience-Eject category.

When a tape volume is assigned to the convenience-eject category, it becomes eject pending and the Library Manager queues the tape volume to be moved to a convenience output station. When the volume is delivered to an output station, it is deleted from the Library Manager’s inventory.

Tip: Logical volumes cannot be ejected from the library. They can be deleted or exported.

FF11

Library Manager

N/A

Bulk-Eject category.

Set when the Library Manager accepts an eject request. The volume becomes eject pending and is queued to be moved to the high capacity output station. When the cartridge accessor delivers the volume to the output rack, it is deleted from the Library Manager’s inventory.

Tip: Logical volumes cannot be ejected from the library. They must be deleted or exported.

FF12

VTS

N/A

Export-Pending category.

A logical volume to be exported is assigned to this category at the beginning of a VTS export operation. Logical volumes in this category are considered in use. Any attempt by a host to mount, audit, or change the category of a volume fails.

FF13

VTS

N/A

Exported category.

Set when the VTS has exported the logical volume. The attached hosts are notified when volumes are assigned to this category. Any attempt by a host to mount, audit, or change the category of a volume fails, except a Library Set Volume Category order assigning the volume to the purge-volume category.

FF14

VTS

N/A

Import category.

Stacked volumes that contain logical volumes to import into the VTS are assigned to this category by an operator at the Library Manager after they are entered into the library through the convenience I/O station and placed in the Unassigned category.

FF15

VTS

N/A

Import-Pending category.

Logical volumes to be imported from a stacked volume are added to the Library Manager inventory and assigned to this category when the VTS starts importing them. At completion, successfully imported volumes are assigned to the insert category (FF00). The attached hosts are then notified of volumes assigned to the insert category. Any host attempt to use a volume that is assigned to this category fails

FF16

VTS and TS7700

N/A

Unassigned Category.

Volumes are assigned to this category by the Library Manager whenever volumes are added to the library through the convenience I/O station and the library contains one or more VTS subsystems that have the Import/Export functions installed and enabled.

Manual intervention is required to assign the cartridges to the proper category. For exported stacked volumes, this is the import category (FF14).

FF17

VTS

N/A

Export-Hold category.

Physical volumes are assigned to this category on completion of processing for an export stacked volume.

FF18

TS7700

N/A

Sunset Media Eject-Hold category for TS7700. Stacked volumes are assigned to this category by the TS7700 when the media is empty and can no longer support writes due to limitations of the current drive configuration. Only empty media, either empty by default or made empty through reclamation, is assigned to this category.

FF19

N/A

N/A

Reserved for library.

These categories are reserved for future hardware functions.

FF20

Peer-to-Peer (PTP) VTS and TS7700

N/A

Corrupted-Token Volume Category.

In a PtP VTS, volumes are assigned to this category when it is determined that the tokens that are associated with the volume have been corrupted. This is to prevent the volume from being selected by a category mount request.

FF21 - FFF3

N/A

N/A

Reserved for library.

These categories are reserved for future hardware functions.

FFF4

Library Manager

N/A

3592 Cleaner Volume Category.

Cleaner volumes for 3592-type devices in the library are assigned to this category automatically.

FFF5

Library Manager

N/A

3592 Service Volume Category.

Volumes are assigned to this category by the Library Manager when it detects that a volume has a unique service cartridge VOLSER and a media type compatible with a 3592 device.

FFF6

Library Manager

N/A

3590-Service-Volume Category.

Volumes are assigned to this category by the Library Manager when it detects that a volume has a unique service cartridge VOLSER and a media type compatible with a 3590 device.

FFF7

and

FFF8

N/A

N/A

Reserved for library.

These categories are reserved for internal library functions.

FFF9

Library Manager

N/A

3490-Service-Volume Category.

Volumes are assigned to this category by the Library Manager when it detects that a volume has a unique service cartridge VOLSER and a media type compatible with a 3490 device.

FFFA

Library Manager

N/A

Manually-Ejected Category.

Volumes are assigned to this category when they are removed from the library under the control of an operator, not the control program. Volumes in this category are no longer available for any other operations except purge-volume category assignment.

FFFB

Library Manager

N/A

Purge-Volume Category.

When this category is specified in a Perform Library Function command with the Library Set Volume Category order and the volume is either in the misplaced state, is assigned to the exported category, or is assigned to the manually ejected category, the specified VOLSER’s record is deleted from the inventory.

No volumes are associated with this category.

FFFC

Library Manager

N/A

Unexpected-Volume Category.

This category is reserved for future use.

FFFD

Library Manager

N/A

3590-Cleaner-Volume Category.

Cleaner volumes for 3590-type devices in the library are assigned to this category automatically.

FFFE

Library Manager

N/A

3490-Cleaner-Volume Category.

Cleaner volumes for 3490-type devices in the library are assigned to this category automatically.

FFFF

Library Manager

N/A

VOLSER-Specific Category.

This category is for general use by programming except that any Library Mount request to this category must be for a specific VOLSER and not based on the category only.