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 EFMT3 and EEFMT3.

In an IBM tape library environment (automated or manual), use ISMF to specify the new recording formats (EFMT3 and EEFMT3) and for media interchange (EFMT2 and EEFMT2). Also remember that even though the TS1130 (3592 Model E06) tape drive can read in the EFMT1 format, it cannot write in that format.

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 TS1130 tape drives, SMS configuration services are updated to validate the recording technology values EFMT3 and EEFMT3.