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New Tape Volume Initialization

CA 1 control over tape initialization is provided to prevent initialization of nonscratch volumes. The CA 1 tape initialization program TMSTPNIT coordinates tape initialization with the TMC.

Additional facilities:

• CA 1 helps ensure that reinitialization of current volumes is performed only if the record in the TMC is in scratch status.
• The TMC record must reflect scratch status when old volumes are replaced with new ones.
• The TMC record must be in inactive (delete) status when new ranges of tapes are activated.
• Allow specification of the owner and ACCESS values for tapes being initialized.
• Verify that the internal VOLSER on a cartridge label matches a tape in the TMC that is in scratch status. You help ensure that a wrong tape was not mounted.

An exit is available to control the processing of the tapes.