Getting started with Tape Optimizer
Tape Optimizer provides an ISPF interface from which you can define and manage tape copy requests. Before you start using the interface, review the following topics to learn about interface usage and several key concepts that will affect how you define your copy requests.
Many of these concepts also pertain to manually-coded tape copy jobs.
Topics:
- About the Tape Optimizer interface
- Task flow for copying tapes
- Supported wildcard characters
- Default values for copy requests
- How to select the tapes or data sets to copy
- How expiration or retention dates are used in tape filtering
- Factors affecting the release of copied tapes
- How Tape Optimizer selects the copy utility to use
- Strategies for optimizing performance of mass-copy operations
- How SMS affects the allocation of tape drives