Titan Users--A New Option for Managing Tapes Is Available

On January 8, 2003, a new interface to the Titan tape inventory system became available. This facility is accessed from Option L.5 of ISPF on Titan, and will replace the old Option L.4 tape inventory interface. The new L.5 facility provides immediate feed back about the status of tapes, unlike L.4 that does not reflect changes made until the following day.

The old tape inventory panels will be maintained in parallel with the new panels until March 1, 2003, after which the old tape inventory panels will be decommissioned.

-------------CA-1(R) 5.2 PRIMARY OPTION MENU ---- CA-1/ISPF START

OPTION ===>

0 CA-1/ISPF OPTS - Specify CA-1/ISPF session options

1 INQ/UPD - Online inquiry/update TMC records

T TUTORIAL - Display information about CA-1/ISPF

X EXIT - Terminate CA-1/ISPF

Enter END command to terminate CA-1/ISPF

(CIT User level 12/2002)

Menu item 1 allows you to review tape inventory information either by volume serial number or by data set name. Providing a specific volser or range of volsers will give you all information about that tape or tapes. Data set name inquiries can be for a fully-qualified name (one particular data set) or all tape data sets that follow a specific naming convention.

Inquiries based on dsnames use the hyphen (-) as a prefix delimiter. That is, everything before the hyphen is considered a prefix and must match, and anything after the hyphen may be different. For example, to see all data sets that begin with ABC, specify ABC- in the Data Set Name field. To find tape data that follows the old North tape naming convention of account.userid, you could look for tape data sets beginning with account AAA and userid BBB by specifying "AAA.BBB-" in the Data Set Name field.

The following example shows information returned from a request to view a specific volume:

--------------------------- VOLSER INQUIRY DISPLAY ------------------

COMMAND ===> I DATE: 2003/013

03.013

VOLSER = 123456 ACTVOL= SMSMC = BLANKS

DSN = NIH.TEST.TAPE.DS1 DSN17 = NIH.TEST.TAPE.DS1

EXPDT = CATALOG ACCT= HEXZEROS

FLAG1 = 40 = (CLO) BATCHID = 00 =

FLAG2 = C0 = (CAT,OUT) HOOKID = FD = SMF 83

FLAG3 = 00 = EDMID =

FLAG4 = 00 = FLAG5 = 00 =

CDATE = 2002/267 CJOB = NIHTAPE CTIME = 0812 CPGM = IEBGENER

LDATE = 2002/267 LJOB = NIHTAPE LTIME = 0812 LPGM = IEBGENER

CSTEP = STEP1 CDDNAME = SYSUT2 CUNIT = 05FC LUNIT = 05FC

OUTDATE = ZEROS OUTCODE = SLOT = 0000000 TRERRC = 00000

BTHDATE = 2002/267 VENDOR = BLANKS COUNT = 00001 TWERRC = 00000

DATECLN = ZEROS USECLN = 00000 CLNCNT = 000 TRERRI = 00000

VOLSEQ = 0001 ROBTY = ROBID = 000 TWERRI = 00000

1STVOL = NEXTVOL = PREVVOL = PRERRC = 00000

NUMDSNB = 0000 1STDSNB = 0000000 LSTDSNB = 0000000 PWERRC = 00000

LABEL = SL DEN = 38KC TRTCH = 36TK PRERRI = 00000

RECFM = FB LRECL = 000080 BLKSIZE = 000080 PWERRI = 00000

AUDATE = 2002/267 AUTIME = 0852 BLKCNT = 0000000001

AUCODE = 02 AUFLAG1 = 00 CPUID = 4090 USERID = MYSUER7

Once the information is displayed, you may update the expiration date by typing "U" in the Command field. The Expiration Date (EXPDT) is the only field that is available for users to update.

Much of the information provided is useful only to the CIT tape librarian, however there are several fields of interest to customers:

•	VOLSER—the volume serial number that the data set resides on
•	DSN—the entire data set name
•	DSN17—the last 17 characters of the data set name (what is electronically recorded in the tape data set label)
•	EXPDT—the expiration date of the data set—when the data set will be deleted. Possible values for this field include:

•	YYYY/JDD—data set will expire on a specific date (where YYYY is the year, followed by the date JDD in Julian date format—the number of days from January 1). For example, 2004/001 is January 1, 2004; the expiration date 2003/365 is December 31, 2003.
•	CATALOG—dataset will expire when it is uncataloged
•	PERMANENT—data set will be kept indefinitely—until the EXPDT field is changed to another value
•	STAT/01—this designation may show up if you try to set an expiration date that has already passed. Rather than immediately deleting the data set, the system assumes you may have made a mistake and gives you the opportunity to change the date to a valid value. If no change is made to this value, the tape data set will be deleted by the system during regular cleanup maintenance.

•	CDATE, CTIME, CJOB, CPGM, CDDNAME—the date, time, JOBname, program name and ddname for the tape data set creation
•	LDATE—date the data set was last used (written to or read from)
•	RECFM, LRECL BLKSIZE, BLKCNT—the record format, record length, blocksize and blockcount of the data set

Tapes that are part of a multivolume data set have values in the following fields-otherwise these fields are blank.

• VOLSEQ—the sequence of this tape in the multivolume set

• 1STVOL-the first volume in the set

• NEXTVOL-the volume that follows this tape in the set

• PREVVOL—the volume that came before this tape in the set

New feature for Cataloged Tape Data sets

Information on cataloged tape data sets can also be accessed in ISPF option 3.4. When viewing a data set list, if you type Ti next to the dataset name-the volume serial number, the size and format of the data set, plus the creation and last used information is available. This data is only viewable-updates can only be done from the tape inventory panels.

For questions on the new ISPF option L.5 tape inventory panel or viewing tape information from option 3.4, contact TASC at (301) 594-6248.

•	VOLSEQ—the sequence of this tape in the multivolume set
•	1STVOL-the first volume in the set
•	NEXTVOL-the volume that follows this tape in the set
•	PREVVOL—the volume that came before this tape in the set