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L700 (CTL700) Installation and User’s Guide—527338-004
9-1
9 Managing Tape Drives
This section covers:
Using SCF With a Tape Drive or Tape Library
Use the Subsystem Control Facility (SCF) to perform various maintenance
operations on tape drives and other peripheral devices.
Checking the Status of the Tape Devices
Use the SCF STATUS command to display current status information about an
object.
STATUS Command Syntax
The syntax for the STATUS command is:
OUT file-spec
Directs all SCF output generated for this command to the specified file.
DETAIL
Specifies that all status information should be displayed. If DETAIL is
omitted, a single line of data is returned for each object name.
SEL state
Specifies that information should be displayed only for objects that are in
the specified state.
Using SCF With a Tape Drive or Tape
Library
9-1
Using BACKUP and RESTORE 9-7
Using Labeled and Unlabeled Tapes 9-10
Controlling Data Compression 9-12
Programming and Configuration
Considerations
9-17
STATUS [ /OUT file-spec/ ] [ object-
spec ]
[ ,DETAIL ]
[ ,SEL state ]