Introduction

Introduction

This document is written for personnel who are responsible for installing, customizing, and maintaining CA VM:Tape in their data centers.

If you are using CA VM:Tape with a CMS TMC, this book assumes you are familiar with VM/CMS standards, conventions, and operation, and with the daily requirements of your VM environment.

If you are using CA VM:Tape with an OS TMC, this book assumes you are familiar with the CA 1 tape management product, in addition to being familiar with VM/CMS standards, conventions, and operation, and with the daily requirements of your VM environment.

This document describes how to customize CA VM:Tape to your data center’s requirements and explains how to perform essential administrative functions such as building and backing up TMC and Audit files, returning tapes to scratch status, and producing sample reports. It also contains reference information for CA VM:Tape components, such as the database, configuration file records, utilities, and user exits.

All references to SUTMYN automated tape library products in this manual also refer to the automated tape library products produced by Memorex Telex.

This section contains the following topics:

Format Conventions for Code Syntax

Example Conventions

Entering Commands

Help with Commands