On 25 February 2012 22:17, Robert A. Rosenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > At 15:55 -0500 on 02/23/2012, Tony Harminc wrote about Re: JES2 OFFLOAD - > requesting help, ideas, etc.: > > >> The latter is what would result from using my catalogued tape dataset >> suggestion, if it works at all. There would be multiple, unrelated >> offload datasets that just happen to be on the same physical volume. >> Presumably you would have to invent a naming scheme so that you would >> unload to (and potentially reload from) the right places. I also >> gather that JES2 supports a max of only 8 offload devices, but it >> looks as though you can dynamically change the dsname, so perhaps you >> could stick with one device and update the name for each day. > > > Make the dataset name a GDG and make use it on one of the devices (the one > you will use to read the tape back in) - Code as DSN(0).
The JES2 book does say that GDGs are not supported. How far it goes toward enforcing that, I do not know. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
