We had that in production  One step with a huge number of datasets, so
allocates all available tape drives even though only 1 in use at any
one time.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 12:14 PM Dave Jousma
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> In many years, I haven’t seen this problem, really since the days pre-VTS, or 
> even in early VTS days where tape drives were physical devices.    Today we 
> had a user allocate all 500 tape drives pulling data in Prod for whatever 
> reason.   It would sure be nice if there were some “controls” that could 
> limit the simultaneous use of tape drives on a per user basis, whether batch 
> job or TSO user.
>
> I don’t think there is anything today that could be done, is there?    Hadnt 
> had to think about this in a long time with so many virtual drives available.
>
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