Check with your vendor. SUN/STK has a very nice trace facility that allows you to see what went on during device selection. Why drives were eliminated and why drives were included as selectable.
Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax: (281)336-5410 E-Mail: dennis.ro...@lmco.com All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Dave Kopischke > Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:27 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Virtual Tapes and Esoterics > > 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. > > Thanks, > Dave K. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
