SMS modifications

SMS automates and centralizes storage management. It automatically assigns service requirements and attributes to data when that data is created. SMS configuration services validate, for example, the recording technology value that ISMF specifies in data class definitions.

In an IBM tape library environment (automated or manual), use ISMF to specify the:

EFMT1 recording technology attribute
Media type of MEDIA5, MEDIA6, MEDIA7, or MEDIA8
Performance scaling option, if the media type is MEDIA5. Media types MEDIA6, MEDIA7, and MEDIA8 are not scalable.

The performance scaling option can also be specified and used outside of the system-managed tape library environment.

In support of the 3592 Model J tape drives, SMS configuration services are updated to validate the recording technology value and the media type value.