NL Virtual Tape

2014-07-09 Thread Roger Craig
We're trying to build a stand-alone restore tape on a virtual tape. Does anyone know if it is possible to have a NL virtual tape in a TS7700 and if so, how do you initialize it to NL? Thanks. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / si

Re: NL Virtual Tape

2014-07-09 Thread John McKown
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Roger Craig wrote: > We're trying to build a stand-alone restore tape on a virtual tape. Does > anyone know if it is possible to have a NL virtual tape in a TS7700 and if > so, how do you initialize it to NL? Thanks. I don't know if you _ca

Re: NL Virtual Tape

2014-07-09 Thread Ken Porowski
y, July 09, 2014 1:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [IBM-MAIN] NL Virtual Tape We're trying to build a stand-alone restore tape on a virtual tape. Does anyone know if it is possible to have a NL virtual tape in a TS7700 and if so, how do you initialize it

Re: NL Virtual Tape

2014-07-09 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2014-07-09 20:03, John McKown pisze: On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Roger Craig wrote: We're trying to build a stand-alone restore tape on a virtual tape. Does anyone know if it is possible to have a NL virtual tape in a TS7700 and if so, how do you initialize it to NL? Thank

Re: NL Virtual Tape

2014-07-09 Thread John McKown
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:53 PM, R.S. wrote: >> Of course, you must have appropriate authority to do BLP processing. >> Exactly how is generally shop specific. >> > > Just curious: Why don't you code RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,DSORG=PS instead of > DCB=(SYS1.MACLIB,DSORG=PS)? > BTW: AFAIK the above will cr

Re: NL Virtual Tape

2014-07-09 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2014-07-09 21:01, John McKown pisze: On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 1:53 PM, R.S. wrote: Of course, you must have appropriate authority to do BLP processing. Exactly how is generally shop specific. Just curious: Why don't you code RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,DSORG=PS instead of DCB=(SYS1.MACLIB,DSORG=P

Re: NL Virtual Tape

2014-07-10 Thread Mike Wood
Roger, The TS7700 doesn't care what you write on the tape, but the system tends to want them all to be standard label. However, I do recall that we made specific support in DFSMSrmm to support both non-specific NL and specific NL processing in all system managed tapes. However, you do need the

Re: NL Virtual Tape

2014-07-10 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
WARNING: I'm not working with RMM, but ... Mike Wood wrote: >rmm uses the volser provided by the TS7700 via OAM to track what you are doing >and does whatever is necessary to allow the change to NL and, probably >unfortunately, I suspect it will insist on relabelling back to SL on return to >s