DSM/Tape Catalog User's Guide

Using TAPECATALOG DEFINE Attributes

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TAPECATALOG DEFINE Examples

These examples use TAPECATALOG DEFINE in the DSM/TC environment.

Labels ANSI—Writing a Single Tape File

This request uses the default volume and file catalog because none is specified in the

DEFINE. Only ANSI-labeled tapes are selected from the pool, and the volume is

written compressed (if the drive used supports compression):

ADD DEFINE =ANSI, CLASS TAPECATALOG, USE OUT, FILEID USER.FILE1, &

LABELS ANSI, EXPIRATION JUL231994, POOL ANSI_TAPES, &

COMPRESSION IDRC

FUP COPY FILE1, =ANSI, BLOCKOUT 32000

Labels ANSI—Writing Multiple Files

To add the first tape file, this request uses the default pool, volume, and file catalog

because none are specified in the DEFINE. Only cartridge-type ANSI-labeled tapes are

selected from the pool, and the volume is written with the default compression value (if

the drive used supports compression):

ADD DEFINE =ANSI1, CLASS TAPECATALOG, USE OUT, FILEID USER.FILE1,&

TAPEMODE STREAM

FUP COPY FILE1, =ANSI1, BLOCKOUT 32000 [,NO REWINDOUT, NO UNLOADOUT]

The tape volume can be left positioned and online or can be unloaded and then loaded

later for the addition of subsequent tape files. For this example, the first volume used is

ANSI05.

To add the second tape file, the following request uses the default pool, volume, and

file catalog since none was specified in the DEFINE. Only cartridge-type ANSI-labeled

tapes are selected from the pool (if more scratch tapes are needed), and the volume is

written with the default compression value (if the drive used supports compression).

Because a multiple-file volume set is being created, the DEFINE must specify the

name of either the first volume used in the volume set, a list of volumes from the

volume set in order of usage, or the last volume used in the volume set:

ADD DEFINE =ANSI2, CLASS TAPECATALOG, USE OUT, FILEID USER.FILE2,&

TAPEMODE STREAM, VOLUME ANSI05, FILESEQ 2

FUP COPY FILE2, =ANSI2, BLOCKOUT 32000 [,NO REWINDOUT, NO UNLOADOUT]

The tape volume can be left positioned and online or can be unloaded later for addition

of subsequent tape files.