On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:26:43 -0500, Dave Kopischke <dgkopisc...@oppenheimerfunds.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 10:58:59 +0200, R.S. wrote: >... >>> Things started out great. These devices are fast. But now I find >>> when I run a JOB with multiple tape allocations in one step specifying >>> the same esoteric, they all try to mount on the same device. Is this >>> normal ??? I don't recall ever seeing this before with our other >>> devices. I ran the JOB again specifying the generic unit name and they >>> allocated separate devices and the JOB ran good. >> >>The same device should be chosen when you specify AFF: >>UNIT=AFF=previous_ddname_with_tape_alloc >> >>Another guess is you esoteric contains only one device ONLINE. >> >>BTW: Just curious - what hardware do you use? It is interesting for me >>because of 3590 emulation. >>-- > >Radoslaw, > I'm familiar with UNIT=AFF for times when I WANT the same device >allocated to multiple DD's in one step. But I'm not coding UNIT=AFF and it's >acting like I am. The strange part is when I changed the UNIT specification to >use the generic name, it allocated separate devices. > > We just got a DataDomain storage solution with Luminex gateways. I'm just >starting to learn about them, hence the confusion and questions. > The software should be smart enough to ignore it (when appropriate) even if you do code it. I'm pretty sure Sun/STK VTCS does. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
