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## 11.5.2 IBM Tape Tools installation 

Public access is provided to the IBM Tape Tools library, which contains various tools that can help you analyze your tape environment. Figure 11-24 shows several tools that are available from the FTP site. 

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The index is available at this web page. 

IBM employees can access IBM Tape Tools on the following website: 

http://w3.ibm.com/sales/support/ShowDoc.wss?docid=SGDK749715N06957E45&node =brands,B5000|brands,B8S00|clientset,IA 

IBM Business Partners can access IBM Tape Tools at this website. 

A text file is available for most tools. In addition, each job to run a tool contains a detailed description of the function of the tool and parameters that must be specified. 

To obtain the tape tools, download the ibmtools.exe  file to your computer or use FTP from Time Sharing Option (TSO) on your z/OS system to directly upload the files that are contained in the ibmtools.exe  file. 

