The following TMS commands may be used to create TMS pools for use with the routine FMALLO or the shell ALLOCATE command. Note that one may also allocate tapes from these pools by issuing TMS commands directly without causing any conflict.
Note that these commands require privilege and may normally only be issued by the tape librarian.
If the tapes are already known to the TMS, the following commands should be used.
Creating a TMS pool
PROTECT poolname ACCOUNT gg CREATE
PROTECT poolname ACCOUNT gg GRANT AUTHORITY CONTROL ACCOUNT gg
or USERID uuu
TRANSFER VID vid1 - vid2 FROMUSER owner TO USERID poolname
The poolname is the name of the pool, e.g. XUFREE. gg and uuu have their usual meanings. The two GRANT AUTHORITY commands differ in that the first permits and member of the group gg to allocate tapes from this pool, where as the second enables only a specified user.
If the tape volumes are not yet known to the TMS, they must be entered using the ENTER command. At this time, one may also specify the OWNER and hence avoid the TRANSFER command described above. For example, if the tapes are to be in pool XXFREE, then they should be entered with USERID XXFREE. However, the PROTECT commands are still required.