Hi there, We have the venerable IBM 3584, and I created a devclass "dbtape" with a prefix of "TDB". I then printed a set of barcodes TDB001L2 ... TDB015L2. Checked in the tapes as scratch, labels=b, etc. q libvol shows them.
When I went to backup db devc=dbtape, it picked a scratch tape with a different prefix. Does the PREFIX option actually do anything on an LTO library? What I want is to use the PREFIX attribute to control which tapes can be used for a database backup, rather than maintaining a file of appropriate volume labels. TIA, --Jim
