z/VM: CP Commands and Utilities Reference - z/VM - IBM

QUERY VIRTUAL TAPES
QUERY VIRTUAL TAPES
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Query
Authorization
Purpose
Responses
Virtual
TApes
Privilege Class: G
Use QUERY VIRTUAL TAPES to display the status of all tape devices accessible to
your virtual machine.
Response 1:
TAPE vdev ON DEV rdev type [GIVEN BY userid] {R/O }
[GIVEN TO userid] {R/W*}
[SUBCHANNEL = vsub] [NOASSIGN]
[SPXTAPE operation status]
is displayed for each tape device attached to your virtual machine.
Note that (*) this is the mode that the giver currently has the tape drive in and is not
the mode in which it was given.
vdev
identifies the virtual device number.
rdev
identifies the real device number.
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type
identifies the device type of the attached tape device.
GIVEN BY userid
GIVEN TO userid
indicates that the real device was given to another user ID or was received from
another user ID through the GIVE command. These parameters only appear for
tape drives that have been given with the return option specified.
R/O
R/W
identifies the type of access you have to the device. R/O indicates that you
have read only access; R/W indicates that you have both read and write
access.
SUBCHANNEL = vsub
identifies the virtual subchannel number. This value is displayed only if your
virtual machine is an XA, ESA, or XC virtual machine.
NOASSIGN
indicates the tape drive was attached with the NOASSIGN option.
SPXTAPE
indicates an SPXTAPE operation is running on the virtual tape drive.
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