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<h1 class="topictitle1">Initialize tapes</h1>
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<div><p>Learn the process and steps you should follow when initializing
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tapes.</p>
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<div class="section"> <p>Before you begin using tape files, you must initialize all tapes. Use the
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Initialize Tape (INZTAP) command to initialize tapes, with or without labels. <span>Sometimes
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you use the Initialize Tape (INZTAP) command </span> to clear all data on the
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tape.</p>
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<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> If the CLEAR(*YES) parameter is specified, the operation can
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take several hours. The program erases the tape from the beginning-of-tape
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to the end-of-tape.</div>
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<div class="p">The following example initializes the tape volume
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that is loaded on device TAP01 to standard label format. <pre>INZTAP DEV(TAP01) NEWVOL(BACKUP)
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DENSITY(*FMT3490E)</pre>
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<p>To initialize the tape volume with the
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volume ID <samp class="codeph">BACKUP</samp>, you specify the character code EBCDIC(by
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default) and set the tape format to *FMT3490E.</p>
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<p>The examples shown below
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are converting from one character set to another:</p>
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<ul><li>EBCDIC to ASCII</li>
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<li>ASCII to EDCDIC</li>
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National Standards Institute, Inc, Document ANSI X3.26-1970.</p>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="usetfile.htm" title="Tape files are used for storing and accessing data on tape media.">Use tape files</a></div>
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