I don't remember ever seeing anything about this. We have an old IBM virtual tape system -- TS3500. I think this is a 3494-B10 and a 3584 ATL. Anyway, there are times when the system seems to go on a "smoke break" and stops mounting virtual tapes. Looking at the "Command Queue" the virtual volumes show "WAITING FOR READY". Sometimes we can clear this up by cancelling & restarting the job. Sometimes by doing "power cycle" on the physical backstore tape drive. But someone needs to notice that a job has been waiting for a long time. We have exactly _ONE_ production scheduler. She not only does all the scheduling during the day, she monitor the cycle at night. So she is overworked. At times, the Tech Services "on call" person will do this because there are a whopping 3 of us.
Anyway, it would be really helpful if there were some way to put up a "timer" so that when a job is waiting for a mount, after some interval (15 minuts or more), we could get some sort of alert about the mount taking too long. We do have CA-OPS/MVS release 12.0. The only thing I have come up with so far is to do periodic DS QL,LIST,QUEUE commands and then use CA-OPS/MVS to parse the output. I guess this is "OK", but I consider it to be "crude". Any thoughts on alternatives (other than actually spending real money which IS NOT going to happen) would be gratefully received. -- Money is the root of all evil. Evil is the root of all money. With that in mind, money is made by the government ... Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
