Since the tape is a scratch, the first thing to be done is to change it to private, to avoid it being offered to be rewritten. I believe TS7700 does not allow a scratch tape to be open as input, so changing it to private will also allow you to read it.
Best Regards Ituriel do Nascimento Neto z/OS System Programmer Em quarta-feira, 7 de fevereiro de 2024 às 10:26:19 BRT, Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> escreveu: Been a while since I had to do this, but can't you just BLP? --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended; but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claim upon them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure. -C S Lewis, _The Problem of Pain_ */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Brian Fraser Sent: Wednesday, February 7, 2024 07:34 TS7700 wont read a tape in scratch category, I don't know about Control-M, but in CA1 there is a utility called CTSSYNC to "protect" a scratch tape by altering the cat code back to non-scratch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
