To make the tape drive at real address 300 available to CA VM:Tape, enter the following:
vmtape start 300
To make the tape drives at real addresses 480, 481, 482, 483 available to CA VM:Tape when STAM is not active, enter the following:
vmtape start 480 481 482 483
To make tape drives with real addresses in the range 480 through 483 available to CA VM:Tape when STAM is active, enter the following:
vmtape start 480-483
To start all tape drives, enter the following:
vmtape start *
To make all tape drives (real addresses 300 through 303) in location ACS000 available to CA VM:Tape, enter the following:
vmtape start location acs000
STAM has been configured for your system, and you have made the tape drive at real address 481 unavailable on all systems using the NOTAVL status on the STAM VARY or the DRAIN command. To make tape drive 481 available to those systems, enter the following: