On Wed, 1 Feb 2006 11:41:20 -0600, Matthew Stitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm going to assume that he needs the MVS Mount command. > > <snip> I like your imagination, but I doubt that is what he wanted. If he had he probably would know a bit more and said something like: "how can I access a tape interactively from TSO, I get an error message that says I have no mount authority" or "how can I keep a tape from dismounting between jobs" etc. I'm sticking to homework question or similar (test?). I get a lot of those on search390.com. They're usually easy to tell because the questions are just soooo over generalized and sometimes the name is a give away too. The fact that this person posted from yahoo may also be an indication, but it least it sounds like a real name (as opposed to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED]). My guess (I hope I'm proved wrong) is that we'll never see a response from the original poster, so we can all keep guessing at what he really wanted to know. Just in case he really needed to know, my answer might be: By referencing a tape data set in JCL executing a program, or by the program referencing a tape data set via dynamic allocation. The reference could also be from TSO ALLOCATE commands or dynamic allocation in TSO but the user would need TSO MOUNT authority or the request would fail. TSO MOUNT authority comes from SYS1.UADS or your security product (RACF/Top Secret/ACF2). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
