Have some fun. Go to the CBT tape and find the program called "TAPEMAP". Used it many times.
Matthew On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 16:19:01 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aol.com> wrote: >rpomm...@sfgmembers.com> wrote: > >>In the "scratch category" settings, you can set an "expire hold" field that >>tells the TS77xx how long to keep an expired tape before releasing it to >>scratch. I believe that once that threshold is crossed, the TS77xx rewrites >>the tape mark to the beginning of the tape and all data is lost - unless IBM >>has some magic they can preform on the back end. >> >"Expired" but not really!? This makes as little sense as expecting to read a >temporary data set in a subsequent job. > >With a physical tape one might EXCP, bypass errors, and recover some data. > >But when my employer was designing a product, we learned that some users >expect the scratch pool to be managed FIFO. I was astonished. > >-- >gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
