Administrative commands

This chapter describes administrative commands you may find useful and their syntax. Tape Manager provides a program, referred to as TAPCMD, to help with the processing of commands. When using administrative commands, you must start each command with "TAPCMD" as shown in the example below:

TAPCMD CMDAUTH cmdauth_parms, etc.

The TAPCMD program runs in the user's virtual machine and performs a variety of processes, such as translating a file mode (i.e., file mode A) to a virtual address, before sending the command to Tape Manager. When entering a tape command, remember to begin all commands with TAPCMD.