What Additional Tape Management Issues are Relevant at Your Site?

Determine if DFSMS is used at your site to manage tape data sets (meaning, system managed tape data sets).

Determine if special EXPDT keywords are used in JCL at your site (for example, EXPDT=99000, and EXPDT=99365).

Note: No JCL changes are needed to support information in EXPDT keywords under Control-M/Tape. However, certain Control-M/Tape installation parameters will need to be adjusted according to whether these keywords are in use, and for which product (CA-1 or CA-TLMS).

Determine if other software products at your site interact with the existing tape management system.

Information Required

• Location of JCLs using EXPDT keywords.
• Names and descriptions of other components of your computing environment that interface with your current tape management system.