This chapter helps you understand the GFTAVMA program and explains how to analyze your tape usage with GFTAVMA.

For a set of SMF data, you run GFTAXTR only once to create the extract file. However, you run GFTAVMA many times to determine which applications would get the most benefit from tape mount management for the lowest cost. These runs also generate the list of ACS filters you can use to capture data sets and to determine the appropriate management class and data class for each application.