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Using the Tape Device Status Display Panel

By selecting option 2 from the Main Menu, you can view information about all the Virtual Devices owned by this Subsystem and any tape devices in use by this Subsystem’s Backstore Engine.

The following panel would be displayed for a Subsystem with nine Virtual Devices (3513-3517 and 3504-3506) that is currently Externalizing to physical drive (3702):

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               CA Vtape Tape Device Status Display    Row 1 to 10 of 10
Command ===>  
Cache Limit(MB)  76149     Cache Inuse(MB)  46578     MB Freeable 1604 
                         
Scratch  Pool1=161     Pool2=485     Pool3=1296    Pool4=n/a 
         Pool5=n/a     Pool6=n/a     Pool7=n/a     Pool8=163 
The following device list contains information on virtual tape and 
physical devices allocated to CA-Vtape. 
Volume  Dev#  Status      Devt  Jobname   # SIOs  SEQ#   Phy/Virt  % 
n/a     3702  Mount Pd    349S  SVTSAS     11      0     Physical  0 
n/a     3513              349S             14      0     Virtual   0 
n/a     3514              349S             4       0     Virtual   0 
n/a     3515              349S             14      0     Virtual   0 
n/a     3516              349S             14      0     Virtual   0 
n/a     3517              349S             4       0     Virtual   0 
n/a     3518              349S             14      0     Virtual   0 
n/a     3504              349S             14      0     Virtual   0 
n/a     3505              349S             14      0     Virtual   0 
n/a     3506              349S             14      0     Virtual   0 
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|The cross-system information has been refreshed | 
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The information shown includes the following:

Note: For more information about Cache Limit (MB), Cache Inuse (MB), MB Freeable, and Scratch Pools, see Cache Management and Scratch Pool Header Information.

Volume

Displays the volume serial number associated with the device.

Dev#

Displays the device number or unit address.

Status

Displays the status of the device.

Devt

Displays the device type.

Jobname

Displays the jobname that has the device allocated.

# SIOs

Displays the number of Start I/Os to the device.

Seq#

Displays the file sequence number.

Phy/Virt

Displays "Virtual" for CA Vtape Virtual Devices and "Physical" for devices in use by the Backstore Engine.

%

For Virtual Devices always indicates zero. For devices used by the Backstore Engine, indicates how much of a Virtual Volume has been copied to the Backstore Tape.