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SET MAXDRIVES=

This command changes the maximum number of tape devices the Backstore Engine can use to allocate PRIMARY, DUPLEX, and EXPORT Backstore Tapes. You must issue the command on each LPAR where the limit needs to be changed.

To immediately lower the number of tape drives in use, you may need to stop one or more Externalization tasks. See the commands START GROUP and STOP PTASKID.

Syntax
SVTn SET MAXDRIVES=nn

Where nn is the number of tape drives.

You can determine the current setting for this option by issuing the SVTn DISPLAY GROUPS console command.