-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darth Keller Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 9:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DFSMSDSS RESTORE Error
>To answer the part of your question about the lock position, the tape >lock position doesn't matter when you're trying to read (recover) a >dataset from the tape. It isn't actually a tape lock, it is a >read/write lock - if it is set in the lock position, you can't write >anything new to the tape. It doesn't lock the tape from reading. Which begs the question as to why we call it a read/write lock instead of a write lock. Because it's Friday and my mind is elsewhere. I should have actually called it a write protect thing-a-ma-giggie. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
