Organization and Administration

This chapter includes the following topics:

• Real-time Environment
• Control-M/Tape Main Components
  • Real-time Operations
  • Maintenance
  • Initialization
  • Termination
  • Environment Verification
• Control-M/Tape Rules
  • Loading and Accessing Rules in Memory
  • Action Categories
  • Rule Order
  • Best Match Order
  • Sample Rule List
  • Rule Search
• Volume Processing
  • NL/BLP
  • Scratch Processing
  • Dynamic Volume Chaining
  • External Volumes
  • SL-NAME Concept
  • External Data Manager Volumes
  • Robotic Tape Library Support
• Data Set Processing
  • Recreating Data Sets
  • Temporary Files
  • Control-M/Tape Handling of Data Set Generations
  • Control-M/Tape in a VTS Environment
• BLP Processing
  • Control-M/Tape Bypass
• Displaying Media Database Information on a z/OS Console
  • Display Commands
  • Defining and Loading Views
  • Example Commands and Views
• Media Database Update
• Fast Positioning a Tape
  • Implementing Fast Positioning
  • Requirements for Fast Positioning
  • DO FASTPOS Values
  • Considerations
• IOA Functions
  • IOA Functional Monitor
• Operation Modes
  • Production Mode
  • Phased Mode
  • Test Mode
• Stacking
  • Batch Stacking
  • Dynamic Dataset Stacking
  • Stacking Conditions
• Retention Management
  • RETPD and EXPDT JCL Parameters
  • Retention Algorithm
  • Retention Update
  • Volume Retention
  • Retention Processing
• Vault Management
  • Example
  • Vault Locations
  • Vaulting By Boxes
• Control-M/Tape to DFSMS Interface
  • Retention by Management Class
  • Pool Assignment by Management Class
  • DFSMS Class Definitions
  • Stacking of DFSMS-Controlled Data Sets
  • Automatic Class Selection (ACS) Routine Adjustments