A tutorial introduction to FATMEN

• What is FATMEN?
• How does FATMEN help?
• Explanation of terms
• Using the FATMEN catalogue - a simple example
• Starting to work with the FATMEN system
• Adding information to the file catalogue
• Access to data using the FORTRAN callable interface
• Access to data step by step
• The relationship between generic names, keys vectors and Zebra banks
• Using FATMEN to make copies of datasets
• Using the TMS tag information
• Using tape pools within the TMS
• Using a Zebra link area to protect the addresses of FATMEN banks
• Using the routine FMALLO to allocate a tape
• Processing multiple entries
• Deleting multiple files using the FATMEN shell
• Access to TMS tag information
• Run time tailoring of the FATMEN system
• Plotting information from the FATMEN catalogue