Thanks! Sorry if you took umbrage at 'antiquarian'; no offense intended.

Question: Was 'PRIVATE' the default value for the USE parameter?

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M addr,VOL=(SL,volser),USE={PUBLIC|PRIVATE|STORAGE}

There are those of us who use that command frequently when building not-current 
versions of MVS...

On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 10:44 AM Michael Watkins < 
[email protected]> wrote:

> Before MVS/XA and RAID DASD, offline DASD volumes (e.g. 3330, 3350 & 
> 3380
> units) had to be mounted instead of simply being varied online. The 
> mount command used the volser of the offline DASD volume as a parameter.
>
> Does anyone remember the format of the mount command?
>
> Does anyone have the documentation in .pdf format?
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