On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:47:54 -0500, Knutson, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>One nice feature of CA-MIM (Allocation) nee MIA nee GTAF nee STAM is the >ability to take drive out of circulation completely in the plex by >placing it in OVERGENNED status. > >@V 0939-093B,OVERGENNED > >It would be nice if IBM would provide a similar status SERVICE or such >that really would bar the device from being put ONLINE unless it was >explicitly placed ONLINE by manual operator command. > It does more than keeping it from being put online. It also removes the device(s) from the EDL. That affects the messages you get (allocation recovery) when all tape drives are in use etc.). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ 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
