Re: Offline Tape Drives - Candidates for allocation

2007-01-30 Thread Andreas F. Geissbuehler
Hm, just thinking out loud... If I had a CICS or IMS control region up all the time I'd try to write a dynalloc command / transaction and allocate the out-of-order tape drive to that region. My kind of mandate! Andreas F. Geissbuehler AFG Consultants Inc. http://www.afgc-inc.com/

Re: Offline Tape Drives - Candidates for allocation

2007-01-18 Thread Steve O'Connell
Matthew, I tried to keep the initial post small, believe it or not, and left out a lot of detail, so the answer is YES - I think. My recollection is that when we explicitly vary the drives offline for maintenance they are always varied offline to ALL LPARs in the SYSPLEX. In Production

Re: Offline Tape Drives - Candidates for allocation

2007-01-18 Thread Steve O'Connell
Tim, can you issue CONFIG at the device level - and does this affect how ALLOCATION works as opposed to VARY? I know that you can CONFIG at the CHP level but that would take out all drives on that CHP, not just the affected one.