Is there any way to log in to issue a mount command within the tape library? Maybe manually mount the Stand Alone Restore tape the first time. Leave one Stand Alone DASD volume up and erase everything else after exercises? Refresh by restoring to another volume then IPLing from it?
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Ed Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote: > Learned Sysprogs: > > In "z/OS DFSMSdss Storage Administration" in the chapter entitled, "DFSMSdss > stand-alone services" there is a section called "Using a tape library" > wherein detailed procedures document how to IPL (or otherwise read) a tape > from a 3494 or 3495 tape library into the stand-alone utility. > > https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.adru000/tlib.htm > > Unfortunately, those procedures don't seem to apply to the 3584 tape > library. I can find no mention of stand-alone device support whatsoever in > the 3584 books. I've painstakingly examined every option in the web > interface (specialist) to no avail... > > Are our folks supposed to drive into the office, export the needed > cartridge, pause the library, open the door, and manually insert the tape > into the TS1140 drive? Would that even work? If not, what is the proper > procedure? > > Please advise... > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
