Operands

The TAPEDEV operands are described in the table below.

Table 1. List of operands for TAPEDEV command
Operand Description
QRY ALL Requests information for all tape devices owned by Tape Manager.
QRY Device Requests information for one or more real devices.
QRY DEVPOOL devpool Lists all of the devices in device pool specified by devpool.
QRY DEVPOOL ALL Lists all of the devices in all of the device pools.
ATT Directs Tape Manager to attach the devices specified.
DET Directs Tape Manager to detach the devices specified.
ADD Directs Tape Manager to add the devices specified to the device pool specified as devpool.
DEL Device Directs Tape Manager to delete the devices specified from the device pool specified as devpool.
DEL ALL Directs Tape Manager to delete the devices in device pool devpool from that pool.
AT nodename Specifies the Tape Manager node on which the device(s) will be dedicated.
rdev rdev1 - rdev2 Specifies a list of one or more real devices and/or device ranges. A maximum of 16 devices is allowed for the address specification.
DEVPOOL devpool Specifies the name of an existing device pool, which is devpool.
DEVPOOL ALL Lists all of the devices in all of the device pools when specified with the TAPEDEV QRY command.
NEWPOOL devpool Specifies a new device pool, which is devpool.
MAN Specifies that the new device pool contains manual devices.
ATL lib Specifies that the new device pool contains ATL devices that are in an automated tape library, and the library name is lib.
DROP Specifies that the device pool is to be deleted.
TERSE Suppresses the informational messages EUM0010I, EUM0074I, EUM0083I, EUM0084I, EUM0288I, and EUM0291I for the requestor.