If you have Broadcom's VM:Tape product, it has a zLinux client interface for providing this functionality.
JR (Steven) Imler Sr. Software Engineer | Mainframe Division Broadcom office: +1 571.401.8685 12100 Sunset Hills Road, Suite 400 | Reston, Virginia 20190 [email protected] | broadcom.com On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM Alan Altmark <[email protected]> wrote: > There's no provision in Linux to mount a 3590 tape by volid. You may be > able to use your tape management UI to manually load the (virtual) stacker > with the tape you want. "mt load" would then load the next tape in the > stacker. > > Regards, > Alan > > Alan Altmark > IBM Senior z/VM Engineer and Consultant > 1 607 321 7556 (Mobile) > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> On Behalf Of David > Wakser > > Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 10:56 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [EXTERNAL] [LINUX-390] zLinux tape mounting > > > > We have been successful in accessing our tape drives > (3590-type non-IBM drives) from zLinux > > (RH) but we cannot seem to find a way to mount specific tape volumes > from a zLinux program. > > > > Can anyone shed some light on this? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -- This electronic communication and the information and any files transmitted with it, or attached to it, are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, legally privileged, protected by privacy laws, or otherwise restricted from disclosure to anyone else. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering the e-mail to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, copying, distributing, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please return the e-mail to the sender, delete it from your computer, and destroy any printed copy of it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
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