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ananth86
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Can I specify my Tape to be mounted in a particular drive explicitly in a SMS environment?
I tried with keeping unit=/ucb . But the mount was pending for a longtime and finally cancelled it. I checked the status of the drive wen my mount was waiting, the drive was free(means no tape is mounted or its not allocated to any jobs). And moreover its a scratch mount. |
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expat
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| Speak to your site support people, they will tell you what you can and can not do. |
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Robert Sample
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| This is very much a site specific question; what works at one site will not work at another site. |
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ananth86
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| Robert Sample wrote: |
| This is very much a site specific question; what works at one site will not work at another site. |
So u mean to say that it all depends on the ACS routines that control my SMS environment, am i right?
If its Yes, then can I get any expert advise to acheive that? |
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Robert Sample
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ACS routines may or may not be involved -- for example, if the device in question is not a tape library then what good would changing the ACS routines do?
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can I get any expert advise to acheive that?
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You have been given expert advice -- consult your site support group. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
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| can I get any expert advise to acheive that? |
No true expert would advise allocating some specific drive. The organizations i support have not permitted this for application processes for many, many years. . .
Why do you believe this should even be considered? |
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ananth86
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Yes, thats true, in my shop also we cant explicitly force our tapes to go to a specific drive. Being a support person in my site, i got a request from my user that he needs his tape to be loaded in a specific drive. I obviously denied him that it was not possible.
But, i would like to know, is there anything else that can overirde my current setup and allow me address a specific drive? Thats the reason I started this thread. |
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expat
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Did you also get his reason for for wanting use a specific drive.
Not up to anything nefarious is he ? |
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Anuj Dhawan
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| Just for a note - expat, Robert and Dick ...all of them have at least 35 years of experience with Z-servers (Mainframes) - so they are experts and give expert advices! Grin! |
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ananth86
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| expat wrote: |
| Did you also get his reason for for wanting use a specific drive? |
No, he was just curious and tried it.. |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
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| No, he was just curious and tried it.. |
Just tell him some old guys of your acquaintenance said "don't do that". . . 
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| is there anything else that can overirde my current setup and allow me address a specific drive |
As Robert mentioned - you should talk with your senior system support - who should know if this is an option (hopefully, it is not). |
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Pete Wilson
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| suggest he enters the tape library and manually inserts it...he won't be back again after teh robot clumps him! |
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