Controlling Tape Drives
To control tape drives, you need to be able to:
- Find out a tape drive's status
- Make a tape drive available to the system
- Dedicate a tape drive to a z/VM® user or to the production system
- Remove a tape drive from a z/VM user or from the production system
- Remove a tape drive from the system
- Mount a tape for a z/VM user or for the production system
- Dump data on DASD to tape, restore data to DASD from tape, and copy one tape to another
- Dump or load spool files or system data files