Not quite. You could use a unit after the vary, but you needed the MOUNT command to assign volume attributes. SMS largely made that irrelevant.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Michael Watkins <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 1, 2024 11:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Antiquarian Curiosity: Pre-MVS/XA Mount Command for DASD Volumes 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? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
