As a rule, normal tape processing by Control‑M/Tape does not cause integrity errors. However, such errors can be caused by external events that interrupt Control‑M/Tape processing, which result, for example, in partially updated records. Some common causes of integrity errors are
system crash
cancellation of a job that accesses tapes in the middle of its processing
interruption of a Control‑M/Tape utility that updates records in the Media Database
processing Control-M/Tape databases or the Trace file by a defragmentation program while Control-M/Tape is running
