If you had a tape master file then typically that had the same dataset name on the master in and out....
Dave > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck > Guzis > Sent: 09 August 2015 19:13 > To: gene...@classiccmp.org; discuss...@classiccmp.org:On-Topic and Off- > Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: SCSI Tape to TAP utility > > On 08/09/2015 10:45 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote: > > > Seems dangerous to me: duplicate data set names on different tapes > > would confuse it (plus, if the DSN is long, the entire DSN does not > > actually appear in the tape label). I worked with OS/360 and MVS in > > my career and we never did anything like that with it. > > So you'd trust your job to a 9-5 operator who really didn't care what the > machine was doing to make tape assignments? > > Wow. Good thing that tapes have write-enable rings. > > --Chuck
