
122 Introduction to the New Mainframe: Large-Scale Commercial Computing
SMS is used to define a storage hierarchy for objects and the parameters for
managing those objects. OAM uses this hierarchy definition and management
parameters to place user-accessible objects anywhere in the SMS storage
hierarchy. The object storage hierarchy can consist of:
Direct access storage device (DASD)
Tape volumes associated with a tape library device (SMS-managed,
library-resident tape volumes), and tape volumes outside of a library device
(non-SMS-managed, shelf-resident tape volumes)
Optical volumes inside a library device (SMS-managed, library-resident ...