On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 04:14:00 -0500, Lieven Borgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Chris, > >The difference between the IBM ATL and the STK is that the IBM stuff is SMS >managed. > >So you have several options: >1) Code a different esotheric in the JCL for 9840C devices and select devices >that way. >2) If you do not want to adapt the JCL's you have to make sure that the >datasets you want to route to 9840C are not SMS managed. >So they can't get a dataclas assigned. >3) In order to proceed you can either: >- code up a tapereq that routes the data to the STK managed 9840C >- uses the SMC SMS interface. Basically what happens is that after that the >IBM code called the ACS routines and found no match because the dataset is >not supposed to be SMS managed the SMC code calls the ACS routines with >an &environment of STK1. You can then use the ACS routines to substitute the >esotheric in the JCL with and other esotheric that would only contain the >9840C devices. Be aware the dataset will not become SMS managed, we'll just >use the ACS routines to do our stuff. > >All this is described in the SMC administrator guide that you can get from the >support site. > >Cheers, > >Lieven > Chris said the drives were "stand alone". Does Sun/STK provide SMC when they sell stand alone drives? Or is it a cost option? I have never been at a STK shop that didn't have an automated library along with HSC (now HSC/SMC), so I have no idea. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
