Apologies for "replying" to myself....
> -----Original Message-----
> The "door to the twilight zone" is apparently closed:
Or maybe not....
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> We all ranges of tape units defined as auto switchable, and
> within these ranges, some are only defined as auto switchable
> between PROD1 and PROD2.
>
> Yesterday, there were problems with tape unit 0166. To clear
> the problem, the drive was varied offline, reset, and then
> the range (0164-0167) was varied online using the ROUTE
> TAPESYS command (which does it on all systems).
>
> BUT...0164-0167 are not defined as auto switchable on one of
> the systems. Since they were varied online to that system,
> it "owned" the tape drives and PROD1/PROD2 could not get at
> them as auto switchable devices. ...
> ===========================================
If the third system "owned" that subset of the tape drives, why were they
shown AFH on that system, too?
-jc-
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