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Parameter Description

The following provides a description of each parameter:

names

Lists the global names of the tape drives whose status to change. You can specify global names using one of the following formats:

• name

  Specifies: One drive

• (name1 name2 ... namen)

  Specifies: Multiple non-contiguous drives (parentheses required)

• name1-namen

  Specifies: All drives in a range of contiguous drives

  You can specify an asterisk for names to vary the status of all drives on the indicated system or systems.

[ ONLINE | OFFLINE | AVL | NOTAVL | DED | NOTDED ]

Specifies the new status for the specified drives, as follows:

• ONLINE

  Makes drives available for allocation

• OFFLINE

  Makes drives unavailable for allocation

• AVL

  Makes drives whose status is NOTAVL available for allocation

• NOTAVL

  Makes drives unavailable for allocation; you must specify the AVL status on the START or STAM VARY command to make the drive available again

• DED

  Dedicates drives to sysid (that is, makes them available for allocation to that system only)

• NOTDED

  Removes drives from dedicated status on sysid and makes them available to all systems in the STAM complex

[ sysid | ALL ]

Specifies whether the status change is to apply to the specified drives on one system only (sysid) or on all systems in the STAM complex (ALL).

The variable sysid is the STAM ID of the system. The default for sysid is specified in the STAM parameter file unless it has been temporarily overridden by a STAM SETP VARYSYS command.