Re: Mount a tape in flexes

VOLSER VOLSTATE 0560 3480 A-BSY-R IC0413 PRIV/REMOV 0561 3480 OFFLINE /REMOV -Original Message- Subject: Mount a tape in flexes Hi all, First of all sorry for such a vague question which

Re: Mount a tape

At 01:07 -0600 on 02/02/2006, Bruce Hewson wrote about Re: Mount a tape: Volume mounts can be done manually or the system can automatically do it for you. Manual mounts are done via Console Operator command. Automatic mounts are performed when allocation requires a volume not currently

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Jerry did reply and clarify eventually, except that he used two other threads ('Mount a tape in flexes', 'IBMLINK vs techsupport.service.ibm.com') instead of this one. Ah so. I didn't notice those were from him (especially the second one). Even the first subject mad

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Louis Krupp wrote: > Don't forget the write ring. Leave it off when you intended to write to > the tape, and you had to unload and reload the tape all over again. > Leave it on when you didn't mean to, and the tape might get purged by > mistake. i had some stuff from the late 60s and early 70s re

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I agree too. That was why I threw out some questions to try to clarify his situation. Jerry did reply and clarify eventually, except that he used two other threads ('Mount a tape in flexes', 'IBMLINK vs techsupport.service.ibm.com') instead of this one. Howi Kok -Origin

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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/02/2006 at 03:06 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >the 1401 was used for unit record<->tape frontend for 709; 709? You didn't trade it in on a 7090? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

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I really think that in this type of question, someone should basically ask for clarification, and then everyone should wait until the person furthur states his question. If not, why waste all of the bandwidth answering maybe this is what he wanted. Agreed. It would have been nice if Jerry ha

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On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Rob Scott wrote: I have never mounted a 3420-type tape. There - I have said it - and I feel much better. If you put me in front of such a device with a nice big 6250bpi tape in my hands - my face will bear the same pitiful puzzled expression often observed by my

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uary, 2006 11:10 PM Subject: Re: Mount a tape > I think this whole discussion was rather interesting. Jerry asked how > to mount a tape, which I thought had to do with physically mounting the > tape. Someone or two said that such a basic question shouldn't be > answered on th

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I think this whole discussion was rather interesting. Jerry asked how to mount a tape, which I thought had to do with physically mounting the tape. Someone or two said that such a basic question shouldn't be answered on this forum. Then it was discussed that even these basic ques

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g the person wanted to know how to > physically mount a tape. After all he didn't ask about JCL or a > program or a console command. That got me to thinking about how I > learned back in the barely light years. (They didn't have computers > in the dark ages). In my very f

Re: Mount a tape in flexes

In a message dated 2/2/2006 8:15:44 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi have a FLEXES based emulated z/OS 1.6 and I have a tape drive attached to it. Now I have a 3480 catridge, which has a installation setup in it. I need to get the some contents of in to my DASD.

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What is the message on the display on your tape drive? If it is Mxx where xx is volser, then insert tape cartridge. If it is NT RDY, then press green button READY. If it is blank, then your unit address 590 is emulated drive, not real tape drive. Issue the command D M=DEV(590) Tomas --

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> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rob Scott > > I have never mounted a 3420-type tape. > > There - I have said it - and I feel much better. Had to mount a few hundred 3420 tapes on a 3430 drive once -- *LARGE* PITA And those big "outer rings" we

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I have never mounted a 3420-type tape. There - I have said it - and I feel much better. If you put me in front of such a device with a nice big 6250bpi tape in my hands - my face will bear the same pitiful puzzled expression often observed by my Dad when he is trying to get me to do DIY or car ma

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You have hit the mother load... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan MOEYERSONS Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 7:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mount a tape >Please let me know how to mount a t

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I was trying to stay out of this thread because I thought it was a homework or some other such question but having seen some of the responses, I have an urgent need to add my thoughts. When I first saw the question, I was thinking the person wanted to know how to physically mount a tape. I

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:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mount a tape Please let me know how to mount a tape and how to verify whether it is mounted or not. Jerry, in all the replies, some of them sort of testy, no one has actually responded to you, so let me try. You did ask a very broad question

Re: Mount a tape in flexes

One basic question - have you used the tape on the 1.6 image before? If not, there is a whole list of steps to make sure the device type matches the z/os device type and the tape is online to unix, so the flex instance can see it. Check the manuals at funsoft and the flex listserv archives. Mike

Mount a tape in flexes

OUNT 590 OR REPLY 'NO' I tried reply 17 with 590 but it is not accepting. >From your earlier reponses I understand that there might me a separate procedure to mount a tape in FLEXES based z/OS. Please let me know how to proceed in this case. Hope I am clear... Thanks i

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>Hi all, > >Please let me know how to mount a tape and how to verify whether it is >mounted or not. > >Thanks in advance. >-Jerry Hope Jerry is not intimidated by grumpy old mainframers. I would like to hear the question expanded. Even if this is for school, I would be inte

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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/01/2006 at 10:33 AM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >And me, being really nasty, would likely go into reminisces and >detail how, in the old days, we had to route the tape out of the >reel, through the capstans, down and up the vacuum chambers, You had

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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/01/2006 at 05:16 PM, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >What's that expression used on your side of the pond, "Let's cut some >slack here"? The question is "How much?" >Let us assume that I knew there were incredibly helpful newsgroups >available where every

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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/01/2006 at 11:28 AM, "Porowski, Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Perhaps I might have asked this newsgroup First, most of us aren't reading a news group. Second, on most news groups the author of such an article would have been soundly flamed rather than mildly q

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>Please let me know how to mount a tape and how to verify whether it is >mounted or not. - Pick up the reel of tape. - Put it on the capestan of the tapedrive, the number of which is indicated in the mount message on the console. - Press the LOAD button. - Press the RESET button. Cheers,

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will display the status of the device. is the device number. For system requested mounts the device number is part of the message. On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 09:06:12 -0600, Jerry Ragland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all, > >Please let me know how to mount a tape and how to ve

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That's an ugly picture! James Smith wrote: No I think the question then would have been "how do I mount a dead parrot?" -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

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No I think the question then would have been "how do I mount a dead parrot?" -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: 02 February 2006 10:41 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mount a tape Are we

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On Feb 1, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Bruce Black wrote: Way to go Bruce. Helping out Jerry has made you a better person no matter how silly the question was. Are we up for the Minisitry of silly mounts? :) Ed Not possible, I'm already perfect -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FD

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>Ted was a bit harsh I appologise for the harshness, but not the sentiment. I truly believe you should do your homework, post your examples, explain what you are trying to accomplish, etc. This is not M/F-101 - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in! ---

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Way to go Bruce. Helping out Jerry has made you a better person no matter how silly the question was. Not possible, I'm already perfect -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech sup

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There is still a possibility that Bruce did not help him. If he is running Hercules under Linux, he may have wanted to know how to a) access an AWSTAPE format tape image or b) how to issue a Linux mount command to access a 3480/3490/etc cartridge. Desi de la Garza wrote: Way to go Bruce. He

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@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mount a tape > > Please let me know how to mount a tape and how to verify whether it is > mounted or not. Jerry, in all the replies, some of them sort of testy, no one has actually responded to you, so let me try. You did ask a very broad question with no details so I

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>What's that expression used on your side of the pond, "Let's cut some slack here"? I'm sorry, but considering how basic the question was, I thought it was a 'teach me everything about IT' type. Those have been denounced before. I have no trouble helping, but we are not here to teach from the g

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On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:41:20 -0600, Matthew Stitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm going to assume that he needs the MVS Mount command. > > I like your imagination, but I doubt that is what he wanted. If he had he probably would know a bit more and said something like: "how can I access a tape in

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Please let me know how to mount a tape and how to verify whether it is mounted or not. Jerry, in all the replies, some of them sort of testy, no one has actually responded to you, so let me try. You did ask a very broad question with no details so I can't be very specific. This does

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There are also REAL machines out there that are trying to act like massive mainframes, not just PCs. The MP/3000 is the size of a two drawer filing cabinet, but can have 200+ MIPs(H70). That is a small machine, but not a small system! Chris Mason wrote: Matthew, I dare say you've manage

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ssive mainframe of my feeble imagination with roomfuls of spinning disks and tapes and blinking lights everywhere. Chris Mason - Original Message - From: "Matthew Stitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: Sent: Wednesday, 01 February, 2006 6:

Re: Mount a tape

In a message dated 2/1/2006 10:34:32 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how, in the old days, we had to route the tape out of the reel, through the capstans, down and up the vacuum chambers, and onto the take-up reel. >> Every see a 'metal' tape? Weighed almost thirty

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of Kok, Howi >Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 10:47 AM >To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: Mount a tape > >Let us not be senseless and careless dinosaurs. This is one of the >reasons we are an endan

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@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mount a tape Let us not be senseless and careless dinosaurs. This is one of the reasons we are an endangered species. It is ok and good that he asked. Those of you who have been around a long time should be gracious to teach the newbie, anything about the mainframe. All

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D] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 10:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mount a tape >>Please let me know how to mount a tape and how to verify whether it is >mounted or not. > >This is a pre-newbie question. > >If you have to ask, you sh

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s and didn't know how to mount a tape. Someone was gracious enough to teach us. It is our turn to do the same. It sounds like Jerry doesn't have someone to show him hands-on at this time. Let's start by finding out what you already knew. Do you know the volume serial number of th

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> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Porowski, Ken > Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 10:28 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Mount a tape > > > And you (not being a complete newbie)

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And you (not being a complete newbie) would have posted your JCL and error messages ... Ken Porowski -Original Message- Chris Mason Let us assume that I knew there were incredibly helpful newsgroups available where every technical problem can be mulled over in detail and that I hadn't

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>>Please let me know how to mount a tape and how to verify whether it is >mounted or not. > >This is a pre-newbie question. > >If you have to ask, you shouldn't be anywhere near a terminal (or a mainframe)! > Ted was a bit harsh, but I am curious why you could

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l Message - From: "Ted MacNEIL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: Sent: Wednesday, 01 February, 2006 1:00 AM Subject: Re: Mount a tape >Please let me know how to mount a tape and how to verify whether it is mounted or not. This is a pre-newbie qu

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>Please let me know how to mount a tape and how to verify whether it is mounted or not. This is a pre-newbie question. If you have to ask, you shouldn't be anywhere near a terminal (or a mainframe)! - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I be

Mount a tape

Hi all, Please let me know how to mount a tape and how to verify whether it is mounted or not. Thanks in advance. -Jerry -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with