Ted, What's that expression used on your side of the pond, "Let's cut some slack here"?
In one installation in which I worked, very occasionally I needed a tape mount. If I hadn't thought to ask locally when I first needed to run a job involving a tape, I would have coded up my JCL in the standard way, submitted that job and would have had it returned with some unintelligible code somewhere which told me nothing. I believe the explanation was that any job requiring a tape mount was caught by some installation exit and rejected - unless there was a JES2 card which caused the job to be held and wrote a message to the operators to tell them a tape mount was required. This was more that 20 years ago now so maybe there's a better way today. Let us assume that I knew there were incredibly helpful newsgroups available where every technical problem can be mulled over in detail and that I hadn't appreciated that the issue was one of practices in the local installation rather than some possible failure of ingenuity in the use of JCL. Perhaps I might have asked this newsgroup rather than my local help desk just as Jerry did. Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted MacNEIL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 01 February, 2006 1:00 AM Subject: Re: Mount a tape >Please let me know how to mount a tape and how to verify whether it is mounted or not. This is a pre-newbie question. If you have to ask, you shouldn't be anywhere near a terminal (or a mainframe)! - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
