The option that Mike presents (giving the tape volume an "alias" volser) eliminates the need for using BLP. This option is also available if your tape management system is CA-1. With CA-1, this feature is called AIVS (Alternate Internal Volume Serial); and you can use the ISPF panels to assign. This is also quite useful when doing a "merge" of one data center into another. With the CA-1 TMSMERGE utility, you can assign a new unique external volume serial number to an entire range of volumes being received. Makes things a lot easier when there is a large overlap in volume serial numbers between data centers.
Russell Witt CA-1 L2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Mike Wood Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 3:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: DFSMS alloc SAME-VOLSER on TAPE or DISK Michele, If you use DFSMSrmm as your tape management system, you can add this tape volume to rmm and then use it ok. rmm allows you to add a tape volume and give it something like an alias. Assume you can use a volser like MYDUPT and actual volser is BT0292 RMM AV MYDUPT STATUS(MASTER) VOL1(BT0292) ...... now in your JCL code .... VOL=SER=MYDUPT,UNIT=tape ..... and the tape volser now will not conflict with a DASD volser. Mike Wood RMM Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
