collection create

Creates a volume collection in the group.

Format

collection create coll_name vol_name[,vol_name,...] [description text]

Variables

coll_name

Collection name, up to 64 alphanumeric characters; name can include periods, hyphens, or colons (no underscores). Collection names are not case-sensitive. For example, COLL2 and coll2 are treated as the same name.

vol_name

Name of a volume to be included in the collection. Separate multiple volumes using a comma and no space. Up to eight volumes can be included in a collection.

text

Text for volume collection description, up to 128 alphanumeric characters. If the text variable includes spaces, surround it with quotation marks.

Example

The following command creates a volume collection that includes two volumes:

> collection create dbasecol db1,db2 description "Dbase Collection"

Volume collection creation succeeded.