[email protected]> wrote: >In the "scratch category" settings, you can set an "expire hold" field that >tells the TS77xx how long to keep an expired tape before releasing it to >scratch. I believe that once that threshold is crossed, the TS77xx rewrites >the tape mark to the beginning of the tape and all data is lost - unless IBM >has some magic they can preform on the back end. > "Expired" but not really!? This makes as little sense as expecting to read a temporary data set in a subsequent job.
With a physical tape one might EXCP, bypass errors, and recover some data. But when my employer was designing a product, we learned that some users expect the scratch pool to be managed FIFO. I was astonished. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
