Re: Select a tape in a TS2900 magazine programmatically

[Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Concur.

Given that you know which tape you want to use you can run any tape 
operation and specify the tape you want to use and it will find it in 
the library and load it for you.

You can do a DSPTAPCTG  DEV(TS2900mlb) OUTPUT(*OUTFILE) 
OUTFILE(QGPL/DSPTAPCTG)   and then parse the *OUTFILE for what tapes are 
in the TS2900.

You can specify *rewind or *leave or, when done, *unload.

Jerry



On 11/24/2024 9:38 AM, Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis wrote:
> Late to the party here but if you've home-grown your own backup, there 
> is no 'secret' to loading a tape. You don't even need M&SE.
>
> Simply using the TAPMLBnn device, the tape specified in the VOL 
> parameter is loaded. No matter what volume is currently in the drive 
> is moved out and the volume you've requested is moved in.
>
> Of course you need to know that tape is available but you can retrieve 
> the list of volumes using an API as already mentioned.
>
>     - DrF
>
>
> On 11/22/2024 12:38 PM, Buck Calabro wrote:
> > I'm looking at revising our homegrown backup process. We have a 
> > TS2900 LTO7 autoloader/drive. The web GUI works great for moving a 
> > tape to and from the magazine and drive. I'd like to do the same 
> > thing in a program.
> >
> > I looked at the APIs for tape, and while I can use QTARTLBL to get 
> > the volume ID of the tape in the drive, I don't see a way to move 
> > tapes from the magazine to the drive. I know that BRMS does it, but I 
> > can't find the appropriate API.
> >
> > My budget is $0.00 and whatever time I can find while eating lunch at 
> > my desk. BRMS is not an option.
> >
> > Thanks!