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Administrator's Guide


Managing Libraries

You can query, update, and delete libraries.

Requesting Information about Libraries


Task Required Privilege Class
Request information about libraries Any administrator

You can request information about one or more libraries by using the QUERY LIBRARY command. You can request either a standard or a detailed report. For example, to display information about all libraries, issue the following command:

query library

The following shows an example of output from this command:

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Library    Library   Private     Scratch     External                           |
|Name       Type      Category    Category    Manager                            |
|-------    -------   --------    --------    --------                           |
|MANLIB     MANUAL                                                               |
|EXB        SCSI                                                                 |
|3494LIB    349X      300         301                                            |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Updating Libraries

You can update an existing library by issuing the UPDATE LIBRARY command. To update the device names of a library, issue the UPDATE PATH command.

Note:
You cannot update a MANUAL library.

Task Required Privilege Class
Update libraries System or unrestricted storage

You can update a previously defined library by issuing the UPDATE LIBRARY command.

Automated Libraries

If your system or device is reconfigured, and the device name changes, you may need to update the device name. The examples below show how you can use the UPDATE LIBRARY and UPDATE PATH commands for the following library types:

Examples:

Deleting Libraries


Task Required Privilege Class
Delete libraries System or unrestricted storage

Before you delete a library with the DELETE LIBRARY command, you must delete all of the drives and drive paths that have been defined as part of the library and delete the path to the library. See Deleting Drives.

For example, suppose that you want to delete a library named 8MMLIB1. After deleting all of the drives defined as part of this library and the path to the library, issue the following command to delete the library itself:

delete library 8mmlib1


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