StorageTek 6 Enter Cartridges Utility, CAP Operating Instructions, Syntax, Utility Name, cap-id

Enter Cartridges

Enter Cartridges Utility

The Enter Cartridges utility permits you to batch enter cartridges into the library through the CAP.

CAP Operating Instructions

Operating instructions for the CAP are provided in the HSC Operator’s Guide.

Note: When there are no more cartridges to be entered, open the CAP once again to ensure that no cartridges are present in the CAP cells, and then close the CAP to complete processing.

The utility returns a print file containing a list of the volumes entered to the virtual machine which submitted the job. That virtual machine should copy the print file onto disk. The listing is then available for you to initialize the internal magnetic labels in any manner you choose, to inform the tape management system that the volumes are scratch volumes, and/or to eject the volumes.

Note: The Enter Cartridges utility may not run concurrently with an Audit utility within the same ACS. In addition, the Scratch Redistribution utility may not run concurrently within the same ACS when the Enter Cartridges SCRatch option is specified.

If either of these conditions is not followed, an HSC message is generated and the utility must be resubmitted.

Syntax

ENTEr CAP(cap-id)

SCRatch

Utility Name

ENTEr

specifies that cartridges are to be batch entered into the library via a designated CAP.

Parameters

CAP

specifies a particular Cartridge Access Port to be used for the operation.

(cap-id)

cap-ididentifies the Cartridge Access Port. The format for cap-id is AA:LL:CC where AA is the ACS number (hexadecimal 00-FF), LL is the LSM number (hexadecimal 00-17), and CC is the CAP number.

Allowable values for CC are:

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