On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 11:26:37 -0500, John Dawes wrote: >Is it safe to say that once a tape goes scratch all the data is deleted? > >Also, is the same volume serial number - in this case A15886 - is kept and >reused? > >Please bear with me because I am not very familiar with virtual tape >processing. > My custom is to use such as: DISP=(,CATLG),RETPD=5
o To the extent that I can control DSN (JCL tailoring helps), DSLIST helps me find the volume. I needn't code VOL=; I can use referback. o GDG might be useful here. But GDG isn't in my skill set. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN