Victor, It depends on what you are coding in your rules.
If you are talking about the input tape, and it is a VTAPE (I am assuming you are using CA-VTAPE) managed volume, then VTAPE will intercept the EDL and remove everything but drives owned by him. If your esoteric in the HSM parms is pointing to the esoteric VTAPE then only those 8 devices will be on the original EDL. If you are talking about the output tape, for your recycle process, then the EDL will be whatever you have coded in the RECYCLEOUTPUT(MIGRATION(xxxx) BACKUP(xxxx)) parm. If it is set to 3490 then all 16 drives will be in the EDL. If it is coded VTAPE then only the 8 drives will be in the EDL. HTH. Thanks....Rick -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Victor Zhang Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 1:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: HSM tape devices selection Hi HSM experts, One question regarding TAPE device selection for HSM: Suppose there are A000-A00F(total 16) devices defined in this systems and all 16 devices are 3490 devices, they are compatible. Suppose EDT name VTAPE defined and contains only first 8 devices(A000-A007), and when HSM requires to modify a tape volumes, for example doing RECYCLE, what tape devices will in included in initial EDL? Will only 8 devices(A000-A007) included or will all 16 devices be included? Regards Victor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
