>I suppose you would be aware of our peer-to-peer problem. > >When we got a 2nd 3494 in 2004, we decided to make them talk each other >as P2P mode. This situation revealed a major problem related to the target >category. In basic mode, asking to mount a scratch through vmtape, rmsmastr >changed the category from scratch to volspecific. No more true in P2P (for us). >We have upgraded our 3494, we have opened PMR, we have asked the IBM >hardware their advice with no result. We even asked the dfsms doc to be >changed related the p2p part to make it clearer. > >We had to developp something to change the categories according to what >has been mounted during the day. I would really like to know if someone is >in the same situation >
I was under the impression with more recent PtP microcode levels the restriction on a mount that a target category could not be specified was removed. Best Regards, Les Geer IBM z/VM and Linux Development