Use this command to display a tape label.
Requirements and Restrictions
None.
Format
- tape
- is a 3-character tape name. The first 2 characters are alphabetic
and the 3rd character is alphanumeric.
Additional Information
None.
Examples
The tape label for the specified tape is displayed in the following
example, where:
- USABLE
- indicates the tape status. If this field displays NOT USABLE, the
label information is not valid until you make it usable by entering the ZTLBL
command with the USABLE parameter.
- I/O
- indicates whether the tape is an input tape, an output tape, or
both.
- L
- is the label type, where:
- SL
- Tape has standard header labels.
- NL
- Tape does not have standard header labels when used for input.
- SU
- Tape has standard header labels followed by user labels when used for
output.
- FMT
- indicates the format of the tape.
- COMP
- indicates the improved data recording capability (IDRC) mode of the tape,
which can be COMP or NOCOMP.
- BLK
- indicates the blocking mode of the tape, which can be BLK or NOBLK.
- T
- is the buffer time delay, which indicates the number of seconds the data
can reside in the blocking buffer before a synchronize operation is
scheduled.
- Note:
- If 000 is displayed, the tape is not subject to time-initiated buffer
synchronization.
- F
- is the file identifier.
- G
- is the current generation number.
- S
- is the current volume sequence number.
- RETENTION PERIOD
- is the retention period.
- LAST MOUNTED
- is the date that the tape was last mounted.
- LAST FILE SERIAL NUMBER
- is the volume serial number of the first volume of the last file that was
mounted.
- GROUP
- is the tape group name that is associated with the label.
- Note:
- If a tape has an NL tape label, only the first 2 lines of output are
displayed.
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|User: ZDTLB RTA |
| |
|System: COTL0002I 08.32.08 DTAP - TAPE STATUS |
| RTA - USABLE I/O-OUTPUT L-SL FMT-ALL NOCOMP |
| BLK T - 000 |
| F-RTA.TAPE G -0027 S-0001 |
| RETENTION PERIOD - 00007 |
| LAST MOUNTED - 94194 |
| LAST FILE SERIAL - A00049 |
| GROUP - NONE |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Related Information
None.