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CA TLMS CTSSYNC Utility Support for the IBM 3494 ATL

The CTSSYNC utility is used to communicate with OAM through LCS services for both basic 3494 ATL and the 3494 VTS. It is the main interface module between CA TLMS and OAM. For basic 3494 ATL support, CTSSYNC is used to eject tapes and can also be used to synchronize the TCDB with the VMF. Additional functionality to support the 3494 VTS is described in the section entitled "IBM 3494 Virtual Tape Server (VTS)" below.

CTSSYNC may perform eject or synchronous functions on either a range of volsers or a list of volsers. CA TLMS provides CA Earl report member TLERPT21 of CAI.CTAPEARL to read the VMF after TLMSTRS has run and format eject statements for volumes selected for movement to an off-site location. These eject statements are then processed by CTSSYNC.