Tom, As others have stated, simply make the tape a non-scratch CA-1 tape and insert the volume. You can either change it to DELETE status (as Barry had indicated) or change the expiration date to a date in the future. Changing it to DELETE will probably be the best, since then CA-1 will assume that any usage is of a foreign tape and no DSN checking will be performed (setting the expiration date to the future would require using 98000 in the JCL; not required if you set it to DELETE status).
Russell Witt CA 1 L2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tom Eden Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 3:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: TS3500 Tape Library Does anyone have a procedure that they use to input foreign tapes into a TS3500 library? We have tapes that were used at a DR test and want to read them at home. Currently CA-1 sees the volser's as SCRATCH tapes and no DSN (that is it is HEXZEROs). We are afraid if they are injected to the library incorrectly they maybe seen as scratches and used before we can get the data of off them. Someone has suggested that we update CA-1 to give the volser a RETPD and inject them as PRIVATE. Also once we are done we want to re-init them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
