Hello Tracy, thank you for this hint. We have since years a Tape Management product installed that runs in our VSE. It is not easy for us to replace this VSE Tape Management product with a VM based product. Another point is that in our environment the TapeLibrary is shared between 2 LPARS. That would be 2 times the license for a VM based Tape Manager to solve a problem. (My chief has planned to decrease the softwarecosts !) I think I can solve the problem with the FSMRMDEV exit.
kind regards Horst Rempel -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Auftrag von Tracy Dean Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Januar 2008 16:21 An: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Betreff: Re: DFSMS for VM Exit FSRMDEV On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:23:17 +0100, Rempel, Horst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello VMers, > >we have a problem with DFSMS/RMS for VM and our IBM 3494 TapeLibrary with mixxed tapedrives 2 x 3490 and 4 x 3590. >When we do mount requests without specifying a real device RMS will try to use the first available device nevertheless its >a 3490 or a 3590. > >So the recommandation from IBM to solve our problem is to modify the exit FSMRMDEV. <product promotion on> Or you could use a tape management product (such as IBM Tape Manager for z/VM) to manage your tapes and the devices in the ATL. Once you've specified the types of tapes you have and the types of devices you have, Tape Manager will request the correct device for a specific tape. And of course you get the additional benefits of tape management such as access control, expiration processing, etc. <product promotion off> Tracy Dean, IBM
