If you specify ON TAPE, Span names the tapes depending on the format (directory/= or filename) that you enter. Tape names can be only two nodes long, so Span resolves them as follows:
directory/=
If the format is directory/=, Span names each tape as follows:
last_node_of_the_directory/datasetname
For example, if you enter EXTRACTS A/B/C/= ON TAPE, the resulting tapes would be named as follows:
C/datasetname
If the data set has variable formats, the tape is named for each variable format (except 0) as follows:
datasetname/variable_format_number
filename
If the format is filename, Span names each tape with the last two nodes of the file title, as follows:
second_to_last_node/last_node
For example, if you enter EXTRACTS D/E/F ON TAPE, the resulting, single tape would be named as follows: