Hi all, First of all sorry for such a vague question which I have posted yesterday and I can understand that your frustrastions are obvious. Anyways, thanks for all your responses.
Now I will give my question in detail - Hi have a FLEXES based emulated z/OS 1.6 and I have a tape drive attached to it. Now I have a 3480 catridge, which has a installation setup in it. I need to get the some contents of in to my DASD. I issued d u,tape,online I got - RESPONSE=ADCD IEE457I 08.26.19 UNIT STATUS 504 UNIT TYPE STATUS VOLSER VOLSTATE 0590 3490 O-NRD-R /REMOV NRD - Not ready O - Online R - Reserved, shared DASD or exclusively-assigned device With this I confirmed that unit 0590 is online and I prepared a JCL to unload the contents from the tape. The JCL I used is - //COPYINST JOB NOTIFY=&SYSUID //* //COPYSTEP EXEC PGM=IEBCOPY //MOUNTDD DD DSN=MY.TAPE.DATASET,UNIT=3490,DISP=(,CATLG) //* //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //* //SYSUT3 DD UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(CYL,(1,1)) //R2 DD UNIT=3490, // VOL=SER=RIMS01,LABEL=3,DSN=IBM.HCI64.F2, // DISP=(OLD,KEEP) //TDFHINST DD DSN=CICSTS31.TDFHINST,DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE), // UNIT=SYSDA, // SPACE=(TRK,(24,6,5)), // VOL=SER=DSK31E //SYSIN DD * COPY INDD=R2,OUTDD=TDFHINST /* When I submit this JCL and I found in the logs - ICH70001I IBMUSER LAST ACCESS AT 07:10:19 ON THURSDAY, $HASP373 COPYINST STARTED - INIT 1 - CLASS A - SYS S *IEF233A M 0590,RIMS01,,COPYINST,COPYSTEP,IBM.HCI64.F2 Then I tried d u,tape,online - RESPONSE=ADCD IEE457I 07.19.49 UNIT STATUS 374 UNIT TYPE STATUS VOLSER VOLSTATE 0590 3490 A-MTP-R RIMS01 PRIV/REMOV A -Allocated MTP- Mount pending R- Reserved, shared DASD or exclusively-assigned device With this I found the mount is pending so I cancelled the job and then tried mounting the tape with - M 590,VOL=(SL,RIMS01) and I find in the logs - *IEF233D M 0590,RIMS01,,MOUNT,590,SYS06033.T082929.RA000.MOUNT.R0100069 521 OR RESPOND TO IEF455D MESSAGE *17 IEF455D MOUNT RIMS01 ON 0590 FOR MOUNT 590 OR REPLY 'NO' I tried reply 17 with 590 but it is not accepting. >From your earlier reponses I understand that there might me a separate procedure to mount a tape in FLEXES based z/OS. Please let me know how to proceed in this case. Hope I am clear... Thanks in advance -Jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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