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Use Vaulted Tapes Without Checking Them In

If a tape is returned from the vault without informing CA 1, no automatic CHECKIN is performed when the volume is OPENed for input. (A volume that has an OUTCODE but no SLOT number is automatically checked in by CA 1 when it is OPENed for input.) If the tape read is the first volume of a multivolume file, this allows TMSCLEAN to scratch the tapes if the EXPDT is in the past. Responsibility for returning the volume to the vault is manual; the next VMS execution still considers the volume vaulted.

You should avoid using vaulted tapes without checking them in because the tape movement is not recorded on the Picking or Distribution Lists, and the Audit trail of activity on the volume is not accurate.

CA 1 does not allow out-coded tapes to be used for output.