The IBM Tape Diagnostic Tool is designed to facilitate the maintenance of IBM tape products. It can be easily installed and used, run quick or extended diagnostics on tape drives, invoke library self-tests, retrieve dumps from tape drives and libraries, check and retrieve firmware updates, and test the performance.
IBM Tape Diagnostic Tool (ITDT) offers multiple functional capabilities that simplify the task of maintaining IBM tape products.
The IBM Tape Diagnostic Tool is designed to:
-Be simply installed and handled.
-Run quick or extended diagnostics on tape drives to check if the tape device is defective and output a pass/fail result.
-Invoke tape library self-test operations.
-Retrieve dumps from tape drives and libraries.
-Perform firmware update check and retrieval for tape drives and libraries.
-Perform a firmware update on tape drives or libraries.
-Test the performance of the environment by completely writing a cartridge and measuring performance.
-Verify tape drive compression.
-Measure system performance per system test.
-Retrieve and display cartridge usage and health information.
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