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Tape Management Utilities

Various utilities are used by CA-1 and Control-M/Tape to perform tape management functions. CA-1 utilities and the equivalent utilities in Control-M/Tape are listed below:

Table 2 Tape Management Utilities

CA-1

DESCRIPTION

Control-M/Tape

TMSINIT

Initialization Utility.

CTTINIT

TMSPTRS

Database analysis utility. Used for error detection (e.g., in multi-volume and multi-dataset chains).

CTTIDB

TMSEXPDT
TMSCTLG
TMSCYCLE
TMSCLEAN

Retention management utility.

CTTRTM

TMSCOPY

Backup utility.

Any backup utility

TMSVMEDT
TMSVMVLT
TMSVMUPD

Vault management utility.

CTTVTM

CA-EARL

Report utility.

CTTRPT

For a detailed description of all Control-M/Tape utilities (except CTTINIT), see the Control-M/Tape chapter of the INCONTROL for z/OS Utilities Guide. For further information about utility CTTINIT, see the Control-M/Tape chapter of the INCONTROL for z/OS Administrator Guide.

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