Matthew, I dare say you've managed to imagine Jerry's circumstances somewhat better than the rest of us. Having only recently started dabbling in this newsgroup I haven't really got my head around the concept of one man (or one woman) installations with a PC pretending to be the massive mainframe of my feeble imagination with roomfuls of spinning disks and tapes and blinking lights everywhere.
Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Stitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 01 February, 2006 6:41 PM Subject: Re: Mount a tape > I'm going to assume that he needs the MVS Mount command. > > It is a console command that usually is coded like this: > M {[/]devnum },VOL=({NL},serial)[,USE={STORAGE}] > {devicetype } {SL} {PUBLIC } > > {AL} {PRIVATE} > > From the System Commands manual. > > On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 10:59:36 -0600, Desi de la Garza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Way to tell them, Howi K. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Desi de la Garza > >Systems Programmer > >Bexar County Information Services > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > >Of Kok, Howi > >Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 10:47 AM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: Mount a tape > > > >Let us not be senseless and careless dinosaurs. This is one of the > >reasons we are an endangered species. It is ok and good that he asked. > >Those of you who have been around a long time should be gracious to > >teach the newbie, anything about the mainframe. All dinosaurs were once > >newbie's and didn't know how to mount a tape. Someone was gracious > >enough to teach us. It is our turn to do the same. > > > >It sounds like Jerry doesn't have someone to show him hands-on at this > >time. Let's start by finding out what you already knew. Do you know > >the volume serial number of the tape? Do you know which tape drive > >unit? Do you know which job asked for the tape? Do you know how to use > >SDSF? Do you have access to the operator or tape console and know how > >to use it? These are the things that can help answer your question. > > > >Howi Kok > > > >a.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
