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Control Statement Examples

The following control statement will initialize a non-VMF tape with volume serial number 012345:

OUTTAPE SER=012345

To initialize five new tapes with the first five available (deleted) VMF volume serial numbers, use the following:

INTAPE NUMBTAPE=5,SER=012345

Note: In a z/OS or MSP environment, APF authorization is required for TLMSNITT and the modules it calls: CTSPARSE, CTSSIO, and CTSTXIO.