DSM/Tape Catalog Management Programming Manual

Commands and Responses
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ALTER MEDIADB Command
ALTER MEDIADB Command
ZMCS-CMD-ALTER (super-group only)
ALTER MEDIADB modifies volume and file catalog tables to contain information
necessary to implement LONGNAME.
ALTER MEDIADEFS Command
ZMCS-CMD-ALTER (super-group only)
ALTER MEDIADEFS is used primarily to configure various aspects of the DSM/TC
subsystem after installing DSM/TC, including:
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The name of the default file catalog for the DSM/TC subsystem
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The name of the default volume catalog for the DSM/TC subsystem
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The name of the default pool for the DSM/TC subsystem
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Whether to try more than once to automatically select an ACS scratch tape
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Whether to use compression when writing data to a tape on an ACS tape drive
•
The default length of time a file entry is kept in the DSM/TC subsystem
The DSM/TC subsystem default values are used when the AUTOMATED,
COMPRESSION, FILECAT, POOL, RETENTION, or VOLCAT options of a
TAPECATALOG DEFINE are not used.
Command
ZMCS-CMD-ALTER
Object Type
ZMCS-OBJ-MEDIACATALOG
ALTER MEDIADB Command Tokens
ZMCS-TKN-FILECATALOG token-type ZSPI-TYP-STRING
ZMCS-TKN-POOLNAME token-type ZSPI-TYP-STRING
ZMCS-TKN-SEARCHLISTSYSTEM token-type ZSPI-TYP-STRING
ZMCS-TKN-SYSTEM token-type ZSPI-TYP-STRING
ZMCS-TKN-VOLUMECATALOG token-type ZSPI-TYP-STRING
ZMCS-MAP-ALTER-MEDIACATALOG
ALTER MEDIADB Response Tokens
ZMCS-TKN-COUNT token-type ZSPI-TYP-INT2