On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 12:42:24 -0600, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 12:13:49 -0600, Dave Jousma <[email protected]> wrote: > >>All, >> >>In many years, I haven’t seen this problem, really since the days pre-VTS, or >>even in early VTS days where tape drives were physical devices. Today we >>had a user allocate all 500 tape drives pulling data in Prod for whatever >>reason. It would sure be nice if there were some “controls” that could >>limit the simultaneous use of tape drives on a per user basis, whether batch >>job or TSO user. >> >>I don’t think there is anything today that could be done, is there? Hadnt >>had to think about this in a long time with so many virtual drives available. >> > >One of the sysplexes I work on for my client still has ThruPut Manager code to >prevent this from >happening. The code goes back to the days they when they had physical STK 3490 >then >9840 tape drives in a silo. In other sysplexes have seen what you described, >but only a couple >of times only in the last few years and we just deal with it and follow up >with a gentle hand slapping. > >Best Regards, > >Mark >-- Yep. thats what we did too. Should be a builtin feature (IMO) so that the user doesnt care, or more importantly doesnt need to know how to code UNIT=AFF.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
