Tony, As you noticed, 3590-1 is a system generated 'generic' names of all your tape devices. The conventions are shown here:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.arci000/taptabl.htm In order to steer your allocations to the proper sub-device type, you may have to define an esoteric like 'OLD3590' in your EDT and include just the device numbers of your old drives. Then when you need to reference old tapes for input, UNIT=OLD3590 should point the mount to the proper subset of device numbers. I like the way STK used to handle this situation with library and non-library drives, depending on if a particular tape was in the library or the rack, the STK software would remove the non-compatible device numbers from the eligible list and the mount would allocate the right flavor of drive. HTH Dana On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 09:02:15 -0500, Tony Thigpen <t...@vse2pdf.com> wrote: >When I use HCD to 'Work with EDTs', it shows locally defined esoterics, >but not the one for 3590-1. >When I use HCD to 'View generics by name', I see 3590-1, but I can't >change it. > >Can I just add a 3590-1 in 'Work with EDTs' and then that override the >one the system generates? > >Tony Thigpen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
