StorageTek 6 manual job-name, step-name, Tapereq, Control Statement Name, Parameters

TAPEREQ

Control Statement Name

TAPEREQ

initiates the TAPEREQ control statement. If any of the following apply:

•there is no TAPEREQ statement specified in the definition data set to match a request, or

•no matching TAPEREQ statement specifies MEDia or RECtech, or

•no definition data set loaded,

then MEDia and RECtech are set to undefined, which matches all requests. Any available device is eligible for allocation.

Table 5 on page 126 shows default values used if the media type is omitted.

Parameters

The TAPEREQ selection criteria parameters are shown below. The JOBname, STEPname, PROGram, and DATASET parameters can have values that include the following wildcard characters:

% or ? any single non-blank character.

*any character string (length zero to 8) not to exceed one qualification level. For example, A.B.* matches A.B and A.B.C, but does not match A.B.C.D.

**used only in DATASET. Indicates any number of qualifiers (zero or more). Cannot be used with any other characters within a qualifier. For example, A.B.** matches A.B, A.B.C, A.B.C.D, A.B.C.D.E, and so forth.

JOBname

optionally, identifies the job name. If JOBname is not specified, the default value is *.

job-name

specifies the job name. The TAPEREQ statement is used only when the specified job-namematches the job name in the request.

STEPname

optionally, specifies the step name. If the STEPname parameter is not specified, the default value is *.

step-name

specifies the step name. This parameter cannot be more than eight characters long, and periods are not allowed within step-name. The TAPEREQ statement is used only when the specified step-namematches the step name in the request.

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