Rules, Pools and Vault Definitions

Control-M/Tape includes a variety of tape management tools. For example:

• User defined rules can indicate actions that must be performed when a dataset is accessed or created.
• Pool definitions can be used to indicate volume ranges that must be treated as a logical group, for example, those that must be used for storage of datasets with a certain prefix.
• Vault definitions are used to indicate information about the various storage locations at your site, and which volumes must be stored in which locations.

Various utilities can be used for routine tasks, such as updating retention and vaulting information, as well as advanced tape management tasks, such as optimization of tape usage through stacking of existing datasets.

To maintain compatibility with your existing tape management methods, BMC recommends that you do not use these features until after Control-M/Tape implementation is complete. When Control-M/Tape is running in Global Production mode, that is, when implementation is complete, you can use these features to organize your tape library and to manage the library more efficiently.

For more information about Control-M/Tape rule, pool and vault definitions, see online facilities chapter of the Control-M/Tape User Guide.