DSM/Tape Catalog Management Programming Manual

Commands and Responses

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EXPIRE TAPEFILE Command

ZMCS-CMD-EXPIRE (super-group only)

DSM/TC automatically runs a cleanup process every 24 hours to permanently erase

expired file catalog entries and revise the tape status in the volume catalog. (The tape

status is changed to RELEASED or SCRATCH when all associated tape file entries

either expire or are delete with DELETE TAPEFILE.)

EXPIRE TAPEFILE runs the cleanup process at any time you need to run it. While the

automatic run always cleans up all file catalogs in the system search list, you can

specify one file catalog, a subset of the file catalogs, or all the file catalogs in the

system search list with EXPIRE TAPEFILE.

ZMCS-MAP-DELETE-TAPEFILE

contains fields that correspond to the MEDIACOM DELETE TAPEFILE command.

For descriptions of these fields, see ZMCS Maps on page 4-18.

Command

ZMCS-CMD-EXPIRE

Object Type

ZMCS-OBJ-FILECATALOG

EXPIRE TAPEFILE Command Tokens

ZMCS-TKN-VOLUMECATALOG token-type ZSPI-TYP-STRING

EXPIRE TAPEFILE Response Tokens

ZMCS-TKN-COUNT token-type ZSPI-TYP-INT2

ZMCS-MAP-DELETE-TAPEFILE