We did a lot of work with SMS TMM to eliminate demand mounts for specific volumes so all the operators had to do was keep tapes in the autoloaders and keep the used tapes refiled. HSM was using a robot for its tapes. Operaters loved it, some of the programmers didn't trust it and were perplexed that my SMS rules could override their JCL.
Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM, Phil Smith III<[email protected]> wrote: Exactly. And that gets us back to the original cartoon, where the tape drive was surely meant to represent a computer. Nowadays, of course, they show a desktop keyboard and CRT monitor--or MAYBE a laptop, though that's often harder to distinguish from a tablet, so the CRT lives, even though they're long dead. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jerry Whitteridge Sent: Friday, June 27, 2025 12:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: 3420 environmentals? There was a reason all those old movies, when they had to show a computer, showed a bank of 3420's all spinning the tapes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
