You can send messages generated during recycle processing or a list of tapes specified with the DISPLAY parameter to the output data set by specifying the RECYCLE OUTDATASET dsname parameter. The list of tapes is in volume-serial sequence (most likely not in tape-mount sequence). When the number of volumes is not too large, operators can use this list to pull tapes from shelves.

However, if you know or suspect that you have a large number of tapes to pull manually from tape storage, there are other options to use. For example, the VERIFY and EXECUTE TAPELIST parameters allow you to divide the total number of volumes to be recycled for one category into smaller subsets (pull groups), each in volume-serial sequence. You can then send these subsets to the output data set having either a name with a prefix specified with the TAPELIST(PREFIX) parameter or a fully qualified name specified with the TAPELIST(FULLDSNAME) parameter.