A method to maintain information in a virtual tape system comprising a library
inventory using a plurality of storage attributes. The method includes forming
a dataset comprising information, and assigning one or more storage construct names
to that dataset. The method provides the dataset and the one or more storage construct
names to the virtual tape system. The method assigns a plurality of storage attributes
to the logical volume using the one or more storage construct names. The method
then selects storage management actions for the logical volume based upon those
assigned storage attributes.
