On 8/9/2015 12:36 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > Good OS-es allowed an operator to mount tapes for his next few jobs, > without paying attention to paper labels and have the OS automatically > locate and assign tapes to the proper job. > > Can UNIX do that? > > --Chuck >
Seems dangerous to me: duplicate data set names on different tapes would confuse it (plus, if the DSN is long, the entire DSN does not actually appear in the tape label). I worked with OS/360 and MVS in my career and we never did anything like that with it. Certainly one could imagine writing a process in Unix (or most any OS, for that matter) to do something like that where a separate process managed the tape drives, and then processes could connect to it to ask for tape data based on the label. I just can't imagine anyone WANTING to do that. JRJ