>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

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