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.

MEDIA9 and MEDIA10 will only be supported from z/OS DFSMS V1R5 and above.

SMS will support a new recording technology EEFMT2

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

EFMT1 recording technology attribute
EFMT2 recording technology attribute
EEFMT2 recording technology attribute
Media type of MEDIA5, MEDIA6, MEDIA7, MEDIA8, MEDIA9, or MEDIA10
Performance scaling or performance segmentation option, if the media type is MEDIA5 or MEDIA9. Media types MEDIA6, MEDIA7, MEDIA8, and MEDIA10 are not scalable or segmentable.

The recording technology attribute and the performance scaling or performance segmentation options can also be specified and used outside of the system-managed tape library environment.

In support of the encryption-capable 3592 Model E05 tape drives, SMS configuration services are updated to validate the recording technology value EEFMT2 and are also updated to handle the new key label-related information.