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Closing Out History Tapes

You may, on occasion, need to terminate the use of a history tape before it is full. This is especially true if you've determined that the history tape is faulty. The procedure described in this section must also be performed if you are switching from tape to DASD history files.

To force CA SMF Director to call for a new volume for the next SMF dump, simply use the TAPEINIT function specifying the SID of the configuration and possibly logstream with the bad history tape. If the tape involved belongs to the alternate pool, be sure you specify the appropriate keyword.

The following is an example of the audit trail resulting from execution of the TAPEINIT command:

CA AUDIT TRAIL REPORT SMFD PAGE 1 CA SMF Director r12 SPn SYSA 22 DEC yyyy 12:37:35 TAPEINIT SID(XE44) ALTERNATE. TAPEINIT SID(XE44) PRIMARY. CAF81I PRIMARY POOL VOLUME 21731 FOR SID( XE44 ) MARKED COMPLETE, NEW TAPE ASSIGNED CAF291I RUN COMPLETE, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 0