Alain, Be careful! DFSMSRM QUERY LIB DEV requires an ATTACH/DETACH of the device by the RMSMASTR virtual machine.
I'm not sure if that will be disruptive to a z/OS LPAR that might be using the tape drive (perhaps Les can confirm if this is an issue). JR (Steven) Imler CA Senior Software Engineer Tel: +1 703 708 3479 Fax: +1 703 708 3267 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alain Benveniste Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 09:44 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: How to share tape drives You're right JR, I tested this, this morning and I can't get any info. You also probably means there is no way to obtain the info I need... But that generates an other question : What Control Blocks dfsmsrm uses to send back the info we can see with the cmd : dfsmsrm q lib dev xxxx (assign Alain > Alain, > > The control block "hints" that Alan provided are only relevant when > running z/OS under z/VM. The information does not apply when running > z/OS in a separate LPAR from the z/VM system. > > JR (Steven) Imler > CA > Senior Software Engineer > Tel: +1 703 708 3479 > Fax: +1 703 708 3267 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Alain Benveniste > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 12:02 AM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: How to share tape drives > > Alan, > > I was looking that direction too. Since I a not a hard Control Block > game= > r > it was bit empiric for me. I thougt to test the RDEVSID today with no > conviction. > > Now that you help me this way I have something more concrete to look at. > > This would work in both cases when we are working : > - in LPAR mode (21 partitions) > - in D/R when our 14 MVS are under VM > > Is this info was missing to JR and you ? > > Alain >
