I have never found the MEMO (must be IBM internal only). I have never tri ed anything more than just letting it sit and wait forever. My backup/restor e procedures are rather simplistic and I am the error recovery for things l ike the operators forgot to fill the stackers with scratch tapes before they left on Friday, or no more tapes in the SCRATCH2/SCRATCH4 categories for DFSMS (my fault), or we left that restore tape back at home.
Since I don't have any operators to complain to when my backups are runni ng, there is no real reason to timeout after say 5 minutes to nag the operato rs. DFSMS does do a nice job of just waiting for a free 3590 drive when I sta rt 6 backup jobs but only have 3 drives. Two hours later the drives cone fre e and the next job in line gets the first free drive. WAITDEV just sits waiting nicely. If anyone does have a 'Wait for arbitrary device with timeout and console override', please tell us about it. To Rich Schuh, sorry for not knowing the real nature of the VTAPE product , but again, it isn't something my client would use. /Tom Kern On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:33:34 -0500, Jim Bohnsack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro te: >WAITDEV looks as if it could be very useful, but I can't find the >WAITDEV MEMO that is referenced if you enter WAITDEV ?. I see that >there is a WAITDEV SET. Can you set the max time for a wait with it. > >Jim >
