On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 03:21:33 +0000, 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 I've run both together, but never with duplicate volsers. HSC/SMC was using TAPEREQ to control allocations, not SMS. SMC eliminates devices from the EDL when it know the tape is one of its own, but I'm not sure if that is before or after SMS gets involved. Either way, STORCLAS=DUPT@SMS should let you get at the STK tape in the ACS. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
