On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:11:28 +0200, R.S. wrote: >Paul Gilmartin pisze: >> In order to keep track of the few tapes I use, without covering >> my walls with Post-Its identifying volsers, when possible I append >> a small data set at the end of each with a data set name >> identifying the purpose and creation date. > >That's why people use RMM or CA-1, or other TMS. > I suppose my bias is that I'm familiar with DSLIST; for CA-1 I'd need to learn YA UI.
>Answering to your question - DEF NONVSAM can catalog non-existent >dataset on non-existent tape. The only "true" value is date. > Will CA-1 let me create handles or aliases in the TMC without actual data sets on the tapes? (My only problem is that testers scan the tapes and complain about undocumented data sets that I use as handles.) Most of my tapes are for testing; they expire in a week or a month and CA-1 nicely scratches them and removes them from the VSAM catalog. If I catalog a handle in the VSAM catalog, would CA-1 be aware of it and uncatalog it when it scratches the tape? I fear not. Unfortunately, I understand the VSAM catalog is not indexed by volser, so there's no simple way to uncatalog every data set on a specified volume, especially if it's impossible to read their VTOC entries. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
