Patent ID: 11915730
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer program product for a tape library having a tape cartridge having magnetic tape wound around a reel to form layers of magnetic tape, wherein the computer program product comprises a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor of the tape library to cause operations, the operations comprising:
receiving selection of a tape cartridge for decommissioning in a tape library;
using tape library robotic accessor, moving a selected tape cartridge to a decommission workstation within the tape library;
mounting the selected tape cartridge to a decommission canister at the decommission workstation; and
activating a fusing element of the decommission canister to fuse together layers of magnetic tape of the selected tape cartridge mounted to the decommission canister, so that the selected tape cartridge is decommissioned within the tape library to have a decommissioned status.