One way round the 'esoterics' problem for catalog entries is to implement a system managed MTL. All your tape volume mountable on the tape drives in your MTL would be in the TCDB, and those entries, rather than the catalog device type would be used for allocation.
MTL implementation does require an extra keyword added to your I/O configuration for each tape drive, so would still require you to build specially for the recovery environment. Mike Wood RMM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
