You will need to vary the disk volume offline before you can use the
tape volume on the same LPAR.

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Tom Williamson <t...@dtssoftware.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have a customer that is doing some tape migration.
> They are currently using STK SMC manage their SILO.
>
> If we create a SMS Tape Library (MTL) and add a volume to it that is also in 
> the SILO which unit will be picked by allocation?
> There is a statement in the SMC manual that says SMC will ignore SMS Managed 
> Devices.  It actually talks about SMS Dataset also.  But while sms tape is a 
> sms managed device I am not sure that a dataset that references a sms managed 
> tape is a sms managed dataset?
>
> //DD1  DD  UNIT=TAPE,DISP=OLD,VOL=SER=SMS111
>
> If SMS111 is also in the SILO will SMC change the allocation to the SILO or 
> leave it alone?
>
> Thanks for any help
> Tom
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