SMS automates and centralizes storage management. It automatically assigns service requirements and attributes to data when that data is created. SMS configuration services validate, for example, the recording technology value that ISMF specifies in data class definitions.

SMS will support a new recording technology EFMT4 and EEFMT4 and the new media types MEDIA11, MEDIA12 and MEDIA13.

In an IBM tape library environment (automated or manual), use ISMF to specify the new recording formats (EFMT4 and EEFMT4) and the new media types (MEDIA11, MEDIA12 and MEDIA13). Note that the TS1140 (3592 Model E07) tape drive can read in the EFMT1 format (MEDIA5 through MEDIA8), the EFMT2 and EEFMT2 formats (MEDIA5 through MEDIA10), and the EFMT3 and EEFMT3 formats (MEDIA5 through MEDIA10). It can write in the new EFMT4 and EEFMT4 formats (MEDIA9, MEDIA10, MEDIA11, MEDIA12, MEDIA13) and for media interchange, it can also write in the EFMT3 and EEFMT3 formats (MEDIA9 and MEDIA10).

The recording technology attribute and the performance scaling or performance segmentation options can also be specified and used outside of the system-managed tape library environment.

In support of the TS1140 tape drives, SMS configuration services are updated to validate the recording technology values EFMT4 and EEFMT4 and the new media type values MEDIA11, MEDIA12 and MEDIA13.