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