Greg, ... and even though it does not affect you yet ..... when you confirm replacement of a WORM tape, rmm resets the WWID ready to record the new value for the new tape.
Mike Wood RMM Development On Thu, 18 May 2006 16:38:26 -0500, Greg Shirey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well, further research enables me to answer my own question. Mike Wood's >SHARE in Anaheim presentation contains a foil describing the WWID, stating >it is maintained for WORM tapes ONLY. > >Thanks, >Greg > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Greg Shirey >Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:08 PM ><snip> > >I note that in the explanation of ADDVOLUME, there seems to be an indication >that the field will only be used for WORM tapes: >"When you are defining WORM tapes to DFSMSrmm, allow DFSMSrmm to record the >volume WWID when the volume is first used on the system rather than >specifying the WWID yourself. This ensures that the WWID for the volume is >recorded correctly." > >Does anyone have any experience with replacing a tape that has an associated >WWID and understand how this works? > >######################################################################## > Notice.....Notice : Ben E. Keith has changed our email address from > bekco.com to benekeith.com. The user-id to the left of the "@" has not > changed. Please change your contact info to this new email address. >######################################################################## > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
