Editing Tape library (section)

=== Supporting software ===
{{seealso|Tape management system}}

Tape management systems of this era were software packages whose purpose was to help facilitate tape library operations and management. They kept track of data sets on tape, and produced reports indicating whether a data set should be retained on, or could be scratched from, a tape; they aided in the setup and running of scheduled production jobs, through such things as tape pull lists and pre-printed external gummed tape labels; and they kept track of the physical inventory of tape reels. The most popular of these packages was UCC-1 from [[University Computing Company]],<ref name="cw-jan1977">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XEToBl0e2NIC&dq=%22ucc%22+%22honor+roll%22&pg=PA23 | title=Users Put 38 Packages on Honor Roll | first=Don | last=Leavitt | newspaper=Computerworld | date=January 17, 1977 | page=23 }}</ref> a product that was also known as the Tape Management System.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JF4iQwmmCwYC&dq=%22university+computing%22+%22ucc-1%22&pg=PA35 | title=UCC-1 Tape Management Updated with Release 4.7 | newspaper=Computerworld | date=July 4, 1983 | page=35 }}</ref> It made several appearances on [[Datapro Research Corporation]]'s Software Honor Roll.<ref name="cw-jan1977"/> Another was Valu-Lib from [[Value Computing, Inc.]],<ref>{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=esYk9fkCBWgC&dq=valu-lib+tape&pg=PA15
 | title='Valu-Lib' Can Run Tape Library, Can Interface With Scheduler | newspaper=Computerworld | date=May 16, 1973 | page=15 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aDCH6OPGmh8C&dq=valu-lib+tape&pg=PA32 | title='Valu Lib' Update Released For IBM 4300s, Series/36 | newspaper=Computerworld | date=December 19, 1983 | page=32 }}</ref>
and a third was TLMS II from [[Capex Corporation]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K1VUAAAAMAAJ&q=%22capex%22+%22tape+library%22 | title=uncertain | magazine=Infosystems | publisher=Hitchcock Publishing Company | year=1980 | volume=uncertain| page=90 | access-date=February 22, 2023 | archive-date=March 25, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325204700/https://books.google.com/books?id=K1VUAAAAMAAJ&q=%22capex%22+%22tape+library%22 | url-status=live }}</ref>

As use of the mainframe continued on into the following century, tape library management, both manual and automatic, was one element of the offerings of the [[Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem (MVS)]] from IBM.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=libraries-introduction-tape-library-management | title=Introduction to tape library management | publisher=IBM | date=April 5, 2023 | access-date=November 1, 2023}}</ref>