Way to go Bruce. Helping out Jerry has made you a better person no matter how silly the question was.
Thanks, Desi -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Black Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 1:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mount a tape > > Please let me know how to mount a tape and how to verify whether it is > mounted or not. Jerry, in all the replies, some of them sort of testy, no one has actually responded to you, so let me try. You did ask a very broad question with no details so I can't be very specific. This does sound like a homework question or an interview question. I assume your environment is the IBM z/OS operating system (or one of its predecessors). In a batch job, you include a DD statement calling for a tape. The details depend on your installation but as a general example //ddname DD DSN=MY.TAPE.DATASET,UNIT=TAPE,DISP=(,CATLG) will mount a scratch (output) tape. When your program issues an OPEN, OPEN will verify that the tape is mounted and ready. If you are writing in assembler, you can use dynamic allocation (SVC 99) to dynamically mount and input or output tape. DYNALLOC will verify that the tape is mounted before it returns to you. -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.innovationdp.fdr.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
