Thanks Mark. All's clear. Thanks for bailing me out. --- On Tue, 19/7/11, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Mark Zelden <[email protected]> Subject: Re: SMS QUESTION - TAPE To: [email protected] Received: Tuesday, 19 July, 2011, 11:34 PM On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:08:56 -0700, John Dawes <[email protected]> wrote: >Mark, > >I tried out your suggestion. I even activated the SMS environment. However >when I check in CA-1 it still shows the tape as scratch. Is there anything >else I need to do? > CA-1 TMC is a separate entity from the OAM TCDB. It is SMS/OAM that is keeping you from mounting the scratch input tape, not CA-1. In other words, changing CA-1 is optional. As Russell indicated earlier and I wrote, you can change the volser in CA-1 to a future expiration date and when it scratches in CA-1 it will update the TCDB as well. Or you don't have to touch CA-1 at all and when you are done copying the tape you can go back into ISMF and change it to scratch again. If you don't do one of these 2 actions, the OAM TCDB will be out of sync with the CA-1 TMC. Clear? Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
