A Scan-File is a listing of Volume-ID's that, through TapeTrack parsing, is converted in to a Scan-map of Fully Qualified Barcodes for input into Command Line processes.

The TapeTrack Scan-File Format allows you to specify lists of TapeTrack compatible Barcodes, along with comments and Barcode defaults.

Environmental Variables will also be resolved before processing any Barcodes defaults or Volume Barcodes. The syntax supports:

• Barcodes: that are to be parsed according to TapeTrack Barcode Logic.
• Customer-ID/Media-ID defaults: that set the Customer-ID and/or Media-ID where those values can not be determined by TapeTrack Barcode Parsing.
• Comments: that are to be ignored by any processing logic (any line starting with a #).

Scan files can either be Volume-ID's ready to process or a definition file (.ttidef) that translates an input file to parse the Volume-ID's before processing.

Instead of passing a data file directly to the TapeTrack process as a scan file, a definition file is specified as the Scan file to interpret the input file for processing.

Input File - input.csv

TSMLIB_1,718315,Private,LG1SACTSM12,Data,1,058,LTO
TSMLIB_1,718868,Private,LG1SACTSM12,Data,1,028,LTO
TSMLIB_1,721008,Private,LG1SACTSM12,,1,083,LTO
TSMLIB_1,721264,Private,LG1SACTSM12,Data,1,036,LTO
TSMLIB_1,722685,Private,LG1SACTSM12,Data,1,052,LTO
TSMLIB_1,722723,Private,LG1SACTSM12,,1,079,LTO
TSMLIB_1,724335,Private,LG1SACTSM12,Data,1,066,LTO
TSMLIB_1,724525,Private	LG1SACTSM12,,1,082,LTO

Definition File

SetFile("input.csv");
SetLiteral(CUSTOMER, "US01");
SetLiteral(MEDIA, "LTO");
#
# Set the delimiter to a CSV
#
SetCSVDelimiter(",");
#
# Set the Volume-ID to the 2nd column
#
Extract(VOLUME, 2, 8, 0);
#
# Translate the Volumes so that they have the correct suffix
#
AddTranslation(VOLUME, "L?????", "*L5");