Termination

Operate Control-M/Tape from computer startup to shutdown (meaning, all the time) so that it can intercept all removable media management activities. Information for jobs that access removable media while Control-M/Tape is inoperative is not tracked.

When Control-M/Tape is terminated, a check is triggered for active jobs that access removable media in the system. If such jobs exist, you are prompted to cancel the termination, retry the termination, or continue (force) the termination.

When Control-M/Tape is terminated, all traces of the Control-M/Tape Real-Time environment are removed from the system, including the following:

• Interfaces established between Control-M/Tape and the operating system (that is, intervention points in the operating system) are removed.
• The Control-M/Tape SVC is removed from the system.
• The WTO Intercept is disabled; mount messages are no longer modified.
• The VOLSTAT intercept is disabled; I/O errors on tapes can no longer be tracked by Control-M/Tape.