QUERY TAPEALERTMSG (Display status of SET TAPEALERTMSG command)

Use this command to display the status of the SET TAPEALERTMSG command. You can enable or disable tape alerts. When enabled, IBM Spectrum® Protect can retrieve diagnostic information from a tape or library device and display it using ANR messages. When disabled, IBM Spectrum Protect will not query a device for this information.

Privilege class

To issue this command, you must have system privilege or unrestricted storage privilege.

Syntax

Example: Display the status of the QUERY TAPEALERTMSG command

Use the QUERY TAPEALERTMSG command to determine if tape alerts are to be retrieved from devices and displayed in the form of ANR messages.

query tapealertmsg

ANR2017I Administrator SERVER_CONSOLE issued command: 
         QUERY TAPEALERTMSG 
ANR8960I QUERY TAPEALERTMSG: The display of Tape Alerts from SCSI 
         devices is Enabled.

Related commands

Table 1. Commands related to QUERY TAPEALERTMSG
Command	Description
SET TAPEALERTMSG	Specifies whether tape and library devices report diagnostic information to the server.