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-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2022 8:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: HYCD or IOCP [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] thanks David, like I said it's been a long time :(, I'm glad for others a CF structure is no longer required. so as far as the OP's question, you only need to define the devices as shared, nothing else ? again thanks Carmen On 10/13/2022 8:03 AM, Jousma, David wrote: > Carmen, IBM reworked how the drives are managed/shared now. There is no > longer a need for CF structure, just the IODF definitions. We share all > drives across all sysplex’s that the VTL is connected to with no problem. We > used to do as you do with certain ranges for certain systems. > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on > behalf of Carmen Vitullo <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 8:30 AM > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: HYCD or IOCP > **CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL** > > **DO NOT open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or > unexpected emails** > > it's been a while since I've used configured tape devices like this > but if I recall correctly you need to define the devices as shared and > define a CF structure to use AUTOSWAP , or a product like MIM to > manage the devices across multiple systems. > > at my site using a virtual tape system we have defined 256 devices and > just manage the number of devices we need across 3 LPARS, all others > are varied offline at IPL time, so one range is online to LPAR1 then > then next range is varied online to LPAR2 and so on. > > that for us was an easier option especially with the virtual tape > system > > Carmen > > On 10/12/2022 10:37 AM, Steve Beaver wrote: >> What is the PARM/OPTION to allow VTD's to auto swap between LPARS if >> >> That LPAR needs a VTD to satisfy a MOUNT request? >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO >> IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > **CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL** > > **DO NOT open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or > unexpected emails** This e-mail transmission contains information that is > confidential and may be privileged. > It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. 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