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Vaulting and Cleaning Tapes

CA VM:Tape provides two utilities, CHECKIN and CHECKOUT, which you can include in your site’s tape vaulting procedures. The CHECKIN and CHECKOUT utilities both update the OUTCODE and OUTDATE fields in the TMC to reflect the whether the tape is on or off site.

Note: For more information about the CHECKIN utility, see CHECKIN Utility. For more information about the CHECKOUT utility, see CHECKOUT Utility.

Another CA VM:Tape utility, CLEAN, can be included in your site’s tape cleaning procedures. The CLEAN utility updates the CLNCNT, DATECLN, and USECLN fields in the TMC for a specific volser to reflect the date and number of times that a tape volume has been cleaned.

Note: For more information about the CLEAN utility, see CLEAN Utility.

The Clean Tape Report, one of the predefined reports for CA VM:Tape, provides a listing of volser, number of mounts since cleaning, data set name, creating user ID, and the last use date.

Note: For more information about creating this report as well as other GRW reports, see Producing Reports.