Of course there is always the Tape Preferencing and Control Facility (TPCF) within the MIA component of Unicenter CA-MIM. That has a couple of different options for controlling the allocation of shared tape drives (either dedicate them to a single system, share, or assign a preference value). Just another option......
Russell Witt CA-1 Level-2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 7:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Two questions: Q1 - DFHSM CPU usage; Q2 - Tape Allocation ... Using the lowest tape drive address is bad for tape drive wear and tear ... I was attempting to be sarcastic about the “thank-you”. And, you are correct. The algorithm is wrong. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
