On Tue, 1 May 2007 13:54:55 -0500, Mark Steely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks for all the info on switching the COUPLE datasets. > >I have a problem with SMS and calling in a tape dataset that is received >from an outside vendor. The tape volser does match a in-house volser. I >am doing a gener and have the volser, dsn, expdt=98000, and dataclas >specified. When the job is submitted it allocates the VTS drives and >calls for the in-house tape. When I change the input volume (SYSUT1) >from disp=shr to disp=new it calls for the correct tape device and tape >volume. This seems to only happen when the outside tape matches an >in-house volser. We are z/OS V1R7. > >Any help would be appreciated. > >From the DFSMSdfp Storage Adminitration Reference: With [EMAIL PROTECTED] and DISP=OLD and VOL=SER=nnnnnn specified in the JCL, you can access an imported tape outside an automated library for input if you have another tape with the same volser in a system-managed library. 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
