LCS External Services supports the applicable encryption-capable
TS1120 tape drive media types, MEDIA5, MEDIA6, MEDIA7, MEDIA8, MEDIA9,
and MEDIA10, and the recording technologies, EFMT1, EFMT2, and EEFMT2,
for these functions:
- Change use attribute
- Query volume residence
- Test volume eligibility
- Eject a volume
- Manual cartridge entry
Note: - The MEDIA5, MEDIA6, MEDIA7, and MEDIA8 media types are valid with
the EFMT1, EFMT2, and EEFMT2 recording technologies.
- The MEDIA9 and MEDIA10 media types are valid only with the EFMT2
and EEFMT2 recording technologies.
- In general, in an environment sharing the TCDB at different software
levels, if a lower-level system without appropriate support attempts
to perform one of the CBRXLCS functions using a volume that has EEFMT2
recording technology, the request fails with existing return code
LCSFAIL (12) and existing reason code LCSFNSUP (310).
- Coexistence support is provided at z/OS V1R4 and above to enable,
during job processing, a scratch volume that is previously written
with an up-level recording format to be used by a lower-level system
that does not recognize the recording format. Because there is only
one scratch pool per media type and that scratch pool can be used
across systems at different levels of support, this support ignores
the scratch volume's previous recording format and enables the scratch
volume to be used on the lower-level system.