In <[email protected]>, on 09/16/2013
   at 03:41 PM, Ed Jaffe <[email protected]> said:

>I'm pretty sure the support is intended to access ordinary FBA disk 
>files and has nothing whatsoever to do with tape.

I'm pretty sure that the support is intended to allow a server address
space to access the FBA device, not to allow allocation to an
unprivileged job.

>Is there even such a thing as FBA tape?

There was; I don't know of any still in use.

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