> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Russell Witt > Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Replace VTS with a tape less appliance > > Bob, > > > What you might want to think about instead would be the following. > Instead > of having CA-1 notify the robot in real-time that a tape has been > changed to > a SCRATCH tape; do it in batch. Take the output report from TMSCLEAN > and put > it to a (+1) GDG file. Then, on a daily basis take the (-5) GDG file > as > input to a batch-job that notifies the robot of the new scratch > tapes. The > result is that CA-1 will have scratched the tape (and possibly un- > cataloged > it) and reported it as scratch. But the robot is not notified for 5- > days > (assuming a once-a-day running of TMSCLEAN). > > The only thing this will NOT catch are work-tapes (set WRKFLS to NO) > and the > ISPF "SCRATCH" command (easy enough to disable and/or block with > security > rules if you want to). >
Hi Russell, Thanks much for the clarification. This might be what we need. Bob Lester ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
