Here is a list of commands that are available for tape support.
- ADDTAPCTG
- Add Tape Cartridge: The command adds the specified cartridge identifiers
to a usable category.
- CHGJOBMLBA
- Change Job MLB Attributes: The command allows a user to change the media
library resource allocation attributes for a job.
- CHGTAPCTG
- Change Tape Cartridge: The command changes the specified cartridge from
any category to the specified category.
- CHKTAP
- Check Tape: The command searches a tape volume for a specific volume identifier
or file label.
- CPYFRMTAP
- Copy from Tape: The command copies records from a tape file to an output
file or a printer.
- CPYTOTAP
- Copy to Tape: The command copies records to a tape file from a physical,
logical, tape, diskette, or spooled inline data file.
- CRTTAPCGY
- Create Tape Category: The command creates a user-defined category name
and assigns it to a system name.
- DLTTAPCGY
- Delete Tape Category: The command deletes a user-defined category name
that was previously created with the Create Tape Category (CRTTAPCGY) command.
The command will not delete the category if a cartridge currently uses that
category.
- DMPTAP
- Dump Tape: The command dumps label information, data blocks, or both,
from a tape with or without a label.
- DSPTAP
- Display Tape: The command displays volume label information,file label
information, and saved object information for standard label tapes. The command
displays both the volume type and density for volumes without labels.
- DSPTAPCGY
- Display Tape Category: The command allows the user to display the categories
that are defined through the Create Tape Category (CRTTAPCGY) command.
- DSPTAPCTG
- Display Tape Cartridge: The command displays the attributes of tape cartridges.
- DSPTAPSTS
- Display Tape Status: The command displays the slot information for the
library device and tape device information for the tape devices that are attached
to the library device.
- DUPTAP
- Duplicate Tape: The command copies the contents of one tape to another.
- INZTAP
- Initialize Tape: The command initializes tapes, with or without labels,
or clears all the data on the tape from the load point to the end-of-tape
marker.
- RMVTAPCTG
- Remove Tape Cartridge: The command removes the specified cartridge identifiers
from their current category, or the specified category, and places them in
the eject (*EJECT) category. The command can move the specified cartridge
to the Convenience I/O station or to the High Capacity Output station. The
eject category is not a valid category for I/O operations. The Eject category
cartridges are disallowed in the tape device.
- SETTAPCGY
- Set Tape Category: The command allows the user to set a category on a
tape device within the specified media library.
- WRKMLBRSCQ
- The command allows a user to work with the resource allocation requests
for the specified media library device.
- WRKTAPCTG
- Work with Tape Cartridges: The command allows the user to work with a
list of tape cartridges.