I think SMC can do this through a TAPEREQ. And I agree....this is a vendor question.
Doug snip>>>>>
>Is there a way to prevent a 3590 cataloged input tape mount request from >allocating the 9840s other than coding an esoteric in the JCL? > Will those 9840s be in a Sun/STK automated library with HSC used? Or are they stand alone? BTW, I would think the vendor selling you the hardware should be able to get someone to answer a question like this. 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
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