Document Outline

• DSM/Tape Catalog User’s Guide
• Legal Notices
• Contents
• What’s New in This Manual
  • Manual Information
  • New and Changed Information
• About This Manual
  • Audience
  • Manual Organization
  • Notation Conventions
  • Change Bar Notation
• 1 Introduction to DSM/TC
  • Magnetic Tape and Tape File Management
    • Using DEFINE Requests
    • Operational Characteristics
  • Main Components of DSM/TC
    • The MEDIACOM Interface and Its Commands
    • Volume Catalog
    • Tape Pools
    • Append Capable Pools
    • Tape Volumes
    • Tape Files
    • Disk Files
    • File Catalog
    • The CLASS TAPECATALOG DEFINE
    • CATALOGFILES Option of BACKUP and BACKCOPY
  • DSM/TC System Terms
    • System Search List
    • System Search Space
    • Current Default Node
  • Role-based flexibility in handling MEDIACOM commands
• 2 Tape File Concepts
  • File Generations
    • Absolute Generations
    • Relative Generations
  • Tape File Version
  • File Retention Period
    • Sources of Retention Period and Expiration Date
    • Expiration Date for an Incomplete Tape File
  • Tape File Expiration
    • Manual Tape File Expiration
    • SQL Warning Message 6008
• 3 DSM/TC Tape Processing
  • Levels of Tape Processing Support
  • Labeled Tapes
    • Operator's Role in Managing Labeled Tapes
  • Volume Set
    • Copying a Volume Set Created by the BACKUP Utility
    • Copying Volume Sets Not Created by BACKUP or BACKCOPY
    • Copies of TMF Tape Volumes
  • DSM/TC Interaction With $ZSVR
    • How Users Request Labeled Tapes
    • How $ZSVR Manages Tape Requests
  • Status Changes in a Volume Catalog Entry
    • Status Changes for an Input Tape
    • Status Changes for an Output Tape
  • Premounted Output Tapes
  • Substituting Scratch Tapes
    • Using VOLUME SCRATCH
    • Using VOLUME (Tape Name)
• 4 Role-based flexibility
  • Configuring the SECURITY-MEDIA-ADMIN group
  • Guidelines
  • Troubleshooting
• 5 Configuring DSM/TC
  • Task 1. Enable Labeled Tape Processing
  • Task 2. Enable TMF Database Protection
  • Task 3. Create an SQL/MP System Catalog
  • Task 4. Start $ZSVR
  • Task 5. Install DSM/TC Catalog Manager (MEDIADBM)
  • Task 6. Create File Catalogs, Volume Catalogs, and Pools
    • Creating File Catalogs
    • Creating Volume Catalogs
    • Creating Pools
  • Task 7. Define DSM/TC Defaults Using MEDIACOM
    • Support Level
    • Default File Catalog
    • Default Volume Catalog
    • Default Pool
    • Default Retention
    • Default Abend Retention
    • System Search List
    • Data Compression
    • Automatic Selection and Mounting of Tapes
    • Default NL and BLP Behavior
  • Setting Defaults Using ALTER MEDIADEFS
  • Adding Tape Volumes to Pools, or Preexisting Tape Files
    • Adding Tape Volumes to Pools
    • Adding Preexisting Tape Files
• 6 Using TAPECATALOG DEFINE Attributes
  • TAPECATALOG DEFINE Attribute Summary
  • TAPECATALOG DEFINE Attribute Descriptions
  • TAPECATALOG DEFINE Examples
    • Labels ANSI-Writing a Single Tape File
    • Labels ANSI-Writing Multiple Files
    • Labels IBM-Reading a Single Tape File
    • Labels BACKUP-Writing Multiple Volumes
    • Labels OMITTED
    • Labels BYPASS
    • General Examples
• 7 Tape Library Control Path Configuration Guidelines
  • Preparing the Software Environment
  • Scratch Tapes
  • Configuring the NonStop Server for the Tape Library
    • Determining the Current DSM/TC Defaults for Tape Library Support
    • Configuring the AUTOMATED Attribute
    • Configuring Compression
    • Mapping Tape Drive Names to a Location in the Tape Library
  • Communicating With a Tape Library
  • Automatic Operation
  • Mount Requests
  • Control Path Flow Description
  • Entering Tape Cartridges Into a Tape Library
    • Attempting to Use a Mismatched Tape
    • When Internal Tape Labels Do Not Exist or are Mismatched
    • When Internal Tape Labels Already Exist
  • Removing Labeled Tapes From a Tape Library
  • Related Reading
  • Using Tapes in a Tape Library
    • Using DEFINE Requests
    • TMF Tape Requests
    • TAPE DEFINE Requests
    • TAPECATALOG DEFINE Requests
  • Examples Using Tapes in the Tape Library (With Catalog)
    • BACKUP and RESTORE Operations
    • File Utility Program (FUP) Operations
    • User Request Operations
  • Examples Using Tapes in the Tape Library (No Catalog)
    • BACKUP and RESTORE Operations
    • File Utility Program (FUP) Operations
    • User Request Operations
    • TMF Operations
• 8 Storage Server Interface (SSI) to the Tape Library Control Path
  • Functions and Features
  • Run-Time Configuration
  • Environment Variables
  • Startup Sequence
  • Running the Portmapper
  • Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Facility
  • Tape Library Error Diagnosis
    • Communicating With the Library Server
    • Retryable Error
    • No Available Tape Library Drives
    • Nonretryable Errors
• 9 Database Design of DSM/TC
  • DSM/TC Catalog Database
    • Locating Tape Files
    • Restoring Disk Files
    • Updating the DSM/TC Database
    • The Catalog Manager Process
    • Moving the Volume and File Catalogs to Another Volume
  • File Catalog Tables and Structures
    • TapefileConfig Table
    • Tapefile Table
    • Tapefile-to-Volume Table
    • Diskfile Table
    • Diskfile-to-Volume Table
  • Volume Catalog Tables and Structures
    • Pool Table
    • Volume Table
    • Volume-to-FileCatalog Table
  • Shorthand Views
  • Sizing Estimate for the DSM/TC Database
• A Using the DSM/TC Software System
  • Setting the System Defaults
    • Changing the Support Level
    • Setting the System Defaults
    • Creating the Default Catalogs
    • Adding Pools
    • Adding Existing Prelabeled Tapes
    • Labeling New Tapes
    • Adding Other Pools, Catalogs, and Tapes
  • Performing Operational Tasks
    • Checking the System Defaults
    • Showing the System Default Values
    • Creating a DEFINE for a BACKUP Operation
    • Selecting and Mounting a Scratch Tape Volume
    • BACKUP Information Output
    • Recovering a Subvolume
    • Returning the Tapes to Scratch
    • Rejecting a Tape Mount
• B CLASS TAPECATALOG DEFINE Syntax Summary
• C CLASS TAPECATALOG DEFINE Consistency Checks
• D CLASS TAPE DEFINE to CLASS TAPECATALOG DEFINE Conversion
• E CLASS TAPE/TAPECATALOG DEFINE Equivalent Attributes
• Index