Well, first off, you need to evaluate if this is really needed, or is
this a process to keep the operators busy and has been in use for the
past 20 years and nobody has been willing to step up and put a stop to
the practice.
Here is my rendition of a similar case about 10 years ago. Two
departments computer centers merged. One has a printer like yours which
printed a label every time a dataset was created. The operators had to
put the label on the tape before filing it back to the library. During
scratch pulls, they had to clean all of the labels off the tapes. It
kept them very busy to say the least.
One day after the merge was completed. I asked a high level supervisor
why they were creating these labels. His answer, in case the TMS
database crashes. We can still find the tapes. So I wrote down a
dataset name, waiting two hours to make sure the tape was filed back.
Then came up to this person and said, OK, here is a dataset name, find
the tape. He looked at the large tape library and the light bulb went
on. The printer was gone the next day.
There are multiple ways of doing everything. And you did not elaborate
why this is being done. If we have a few more facts, maybe we can come
up with some ideas.
Leif Rundberget
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Jorge Supkay wrote:
In this shop which I recently joined, operators use the LAB subtask of
TLMS to print tape labels. The TLMSLBLS code was modified to use route
code 19 to print a label when a tape dataset is created with a particular
high level qualifier. The printer is defined as a 3286-2 console connected
using twisted pair via a 3174. Although this meets our current need we are
precariously relying on an aging and unsupported pin feed dot matrix
printer to create the gummed labels.
Is there today a better way to accomplish this?
Please note that our mainframe environment consist of two zSeries 890
processors with OSA-Express Console Support.
I appreciate any input. Thanks
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